This is beyond tasteless, but what can we expect from the wide-eyed chinchilla-buggerers at Peta?
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to eat an entire fucking cow.
Ford POS with rusted-out body, gas-heavy exhaust mix and a misfiring cylinder rolled up to the local convenience store. Three beer-bellied bearded men in jeans and a white trash woman piled out.
On the passenger side door was the blazon, Western Conservative Alliance.
This is what we’re up against. This is the base that got Bush elected. This is the caliber of person who fears immigrants, queers and a black president.
Get off your fucking, blog-reading ass and vote Obama, even if you don’t believe in him (I don’t). Or else these shitbrains win.
It’s that simple. Get it?
McCain, for wanting to increase offshore drilling in Florida, or Obama, for wanting to send out a $1,000-per-taxpayer “emergency” rebate check?
Offshore drilling isn’t going to lower fuel costs in the short term. Reining in speculators might help. Oh, and not wasting petroleum to fuel ground and air assault vehicles in the name of pressing a pointless, endless war.
Contrarily, the Bush “stimulus”, an echo of what he did in 2001, was a shoddy idea; where’s the money coming from? Corporate welfare tax cuts are already so deep that our national debt is higher than it was even under Reagan.
So … Barack, where do you think the money will come from to pay for another grand per person?
By focusing on a heretofore entirely ignored demographic, Mentos (the Freshmaker™) — Brazil is forging ahead into entirely unexplored regions of demographia.
The product, dubbed Mentos Teens, appears to be taking a tremendous risk by marketing candy to teenagers. As though that tactic weren’t bold enough, they’re also attempting to harness the mysterious power of snark to approach these new targets on the advertising horizon.
Using artwork reminiscent of failed products such as Garbage Pail Kids — a wildly unsuccessful attempt at selling cardboard chewing gum and colorful stickers to prepubescents — complete with emergent “pimples” that are actually colorful chunks of candy, Mentos Teens’ images are captioned with the phrase, It’s a Puberty Thing.
Concerns that teens will be waving their “puberty things” in one another’s faces have been summarily rejected by Mentos.
Images ganked from commercial-archive.com below the fold.
31
Jul
The godtards are fond of claiming that nonheterosexuals adopting children is bad for the kids.
As bad as this, I wonder?
An evangelical preacher killed his wife several years ago and stuffed her body in a freezer after she caught him abusing their daughter, according to police and court documents.
Anthony Hopkins murdered his wife in 2004 after she caught him fucking their daughter, who would have been around 15 at the time. He then forced his daughter to help him hide her mother’s body in a freezer.
That’s pretty bad, but the capper is likely this, from a colleague who described Hopkins’s last service (the one after which he was arrested):
His message, she said, was about forgiveness and not passing judgment — and at one point, he turned to his seven children and asked them to forgive him his past, present and future.
Forgiveness. Not passing judgment. Isn’t that convenient?
But when you think about it, that’s what’s wrong with a lot of the religiously addled — they have this belief that they can get away with anything, because in the end their god will forgive them. You might have seen the bumper sticker that reads, Christians aren’t perfect, just forgiven. This sums up the attitude beautifully. It doesn’t matter what I might have done yesterday, or what I might do tomorrow, because my phantom cloud-papa will forgive me for all of it in the end.
This absolution of personal responsibility is what allows monsters like Hopkins to do what they do, and not kill themselves out of shame and self-disgust.
And yet, other evangelical retards like James Dobson continue to insist that handing a child over to an adoptive queer is the very worst thing you can do. How much documentary evidence can he bring to support that?
30
Jul
“Gamma Ray”, from his new album, Modern Guilt:
I wonder if Beck is using MJ’s oxygen chamber or something. He still looks like he’s about 19.
…it should probably be Buddhism.
In the face of right-wing fungelical squeaking about transgendered individuals and the bathrooms they should or should not be permitted to use, a school in Thailand has actually built a separate WC for its transgendered students.
What I sit in awe of is not the fact that the bathroom was built; nor is it the fact that this is a school full of teens who apparently don’t suffer too strongly from homophobia; nor is it the fact that, according to a school administrator, 10 to 20 percent of students there annually consider themselves to be transgendered.
No, what leaves me floored is the simple fact that everyone is okay with it. There’s no yelling. There’s no taunting. There’s no outraged protest from religiously-retarded community members. There was simply a need to accommodate some students; the need was met; end, basically, of story.
But Thailand is predominantly Buddhist, and Buddhism is totally neutral about sexual orientation, because whom you fuck is irrelevant to achieving liberation. Transgender questions would fall into that category as well. So Thailand never developed under an institutional hatred of gays, lesbians or transgendered people, which means that their religion is not interfering with a civilized society.
Do we even need to speculate very long about what would happen if such a facility were put in place in a school here, in this ever so great “Christian” nation?
28
Jul
This about sums it up. Lovestory and tragedy in seven minutes.
Vidrar Vel Til Loftarasa, by Sigur Ross.
For those who don’t speak Icelandic, the subtitled version is here.
23
Jul
In yet another example of the perverse sense of humor of the universe, an Indiana Wiccan stabbed herself in the foot with a sword while conducting a good-luck ritual.
MSNBC shares with us the story of Katherine Gunther, of Lebanon, IN. While performing the ceremony under the light of a full moon1 in a cemetery — which includes, apparently, repeatedly thrusting the point of a sword into the ground — she managed to spike herself as well.
Now I suppose you could argue that the good luck ceremony actually worked, or else she’d have severed her femoral artery … but maybe in the future she and her fellow Wiccans will consider availing themselves of toy swords.
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1. Of course.
“Calorie Lab” is a website that ordinarily publishes more or less useful commentary on diets and diet plans, generally skewing to the reality-based side, but this last week they published a very credulous workup of Stanley Burroughs and his “cleanse” diet plan here.
The article presents the diet in a more or less legitimate sounding light until the last few grafs. That was extremely troubling to me, so I posted this comment on the article:
This sort of pseudoscientific mumbo-jumbo is not merely wrong; it’s actually dangerous.
Anyone willing to take diet advice from a man who didn’t even acknowledge that germs make people sick is treading a dangerous knife-edge of stupidity.
Please keep your articles to medically-responsible subjects.
While the online followup from the Calorie Lab editor was a bit snarky, I tried to keep it light. However, I received the following in my mailbox:
On Jul 17, 2008, at 9:02 AM, Mark Schrimsher wrote:
Did you actually read it? We said the guy was a crank and felon, and
then hoisted him by his own petard with quotes from his nutty book.
My reply read as follows:
But the article was preceded by a lengthy description of the diet. The excoriation came last. It was readable as an endorsement, and followup comments by others indicated a credulous acceptance of his teachings.
Mark Schrimsher then followed up with this incredible defense:
19
Jul
Or not, perhaps. Delia Derbyshire was apparently responsible for the mix of Ron Grainer’s Dr. Who theme in 1963, but damn, she did some other innovative, amazing work in the analog era.
Hit this link and listen to her piece under the ‘Timeless’ header; or just hit this.
That was last week, right?
h/t Warren
