Entries Tagged as 'Weird'

Code Pink relying on unconventional warfare

“We are more than a color;
we are the embodiment of ovarian peace
and fallopian justice!” –Code Pink Motto

For months now the anti-war group known as “Code Pink” has been hard at work trying to force a Marines recruiting station in downtown Berkeley, CA, to move out of the area. “Actually we would like it if all of the military offices would shut their doors.” said Zeta Mandarin, a leader in the local group of Code Pink volunteers.

“We are more than volunteers” said Mandarin “We are she-warriors of peace and light, and we plan on shutting the military down by holding events like ‘Breastfeeding instead of bombing’ where we nurse our babies in front of the station.” Who would have thought that breasts could have such an impact on the world? The goddess is afoot, I tell you!”

While Mandarin and the other Code Pink “she-warriors” continue to picket, sing and nurse their babies, we searched the parameter of the scene outside the station to get local reactions on the events that has brought Berkeley to national attention and has even come to the point of threatening its federal funding. [Read more →]

She turned me into a newt!

… a newt?

I got better.

Now Code Pink is calling on witches to come prepared to cast their spells on the Recruiting Center in Berkeley. Can they possibly scream “We are so irrelevant that we are willing to try any stunt to get attention no matter how stupid, idiotic or moronic it is!” any louder than that? [Read more →]

But, I don’t like Spam!

(h/t BBC and Monty Python)

Scene: An Internet Cafe. One table is occupied by a group of Vikings wearing horned helmets. Whenever the word “spam” is repeated, they begin singing and/or chanting. A man and his wife enter the Cafe with a laptop in hand. The man is played by Mr. Hooah and the wife is played by Claire.

Man: You sit here, dear.
Wife: All right.
Man: You checking your email, dear? Well, what’ve you got?

Wife: Well, there’s Internet Explorer; Outlook and my USB Modem and spam; Google and spam; Michelle Malkin and spam; spam an email from your mum and spam; spam a new comment on my blog spam spam Gimp and spam; spam photobucket spam spam Al commented, spam Piper, Cathy and Bon and spam… ;

Vikings: Spam spam spam spam… [Read more →]

A pork project worth taking on?

We are all painfully aware of our issues with the pork-laden military budget that was sent to Bush, and was then vetoed (rightly) by him. Well, our President is not the only one with pork-project woes. Ft. Benning is preparing to do something about their own pork-issues.

Ft. Benning Places Bounty on Problem Pigs

Associated Press
March 04, 2008

FORT BENNING, Ga. - Maj. Bobby Toon is known as the Pig Czar at the huge army post on Georgia’s western edge.He has been assigned to help rid Fort Benning of its unwanted guests: an estimated 6,000 feral pigs that roam the 184,000-acre installation.

The animals, common throughout Georgia, are known for tearing up woodlands and farms. They are aggressive foragers, gobbling up native vegetation and endangered species.

“These pigs feed and breed,” Toon said. “That’s all they care about. I’ve been here off and on for 17 years, and I can never remember a pig population as big as it is now.”

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This crazy, crazy world we live in…

A couple of things that caught my eye this morning as I was perusing various news sites:

First:

From FOX News:

“Oscar Pistorius has been ruled ineligible to compete at this summer’s Olympic Games because his prosthetic limbs give him an unfair advantage.”

Continuing on in the story it is revealed that a two day scientific study claims that his Cheetah blades give him an advantage on energy consumption and resistance. I am sure the main advantages this double amputee possesses are as follows: 1. the fact that he is obviously an incredible athlete; 2. and a highly competitive individual. I hope he wins his appeal.

From the Sun Sentinel (found originally on RN) :

Peace activists in pink dresses and tiaras demanded the arrest of anti-communist militant Luis Posada Carriles Saturday, but aborted plans for a demonstration in Little Havana after Carriles supporters rushed their vehicle.

First off if you want to be taken seriously when you are protesting things, never ever let them see you sweat and never let them see you in a pink dress and tiara.

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… they were met by some 200 irate Cuban-Americans who consider Carriles a champion of freedom. Some ran at the activists’ truck as they arrived, tearing off its pink fringe, while others shouted sexist slurs.

“We’re not in Cuba. We’re supposed to have free speech,” said Medea Benjamin, one of the group’s founders. “This is indicative of how a small group of Cuban-Americans are holding the rest of the community hostage.”

Wait a minute. Back up the tape here. Is this the same group who is notorious for trespassing on private business property, for harassing recruiters and vandalizing recruiter’s offices? This is the same group that believes they have the right to approach our Secretary of State in a threatening manner? They think that they are supposed to have unlimited rights, but let some private citizens run them out of their neighborhood and now they are crying “foul?” Funny, I always thought that the Constitution protects you from the government’s ability to silence you, however, if you act like a general nusance in public your fellow citizens also get to exercise the same freedom and run you off. I hate to be the one who has to point this out, but other people have the right to protest your protesting. Go figure.

Rewards Program

On New Years Eve I went to Block Buster. Knowing that we have a little tot, and that we are not exactly spring chickens any more, I planned on a quiet New Years at home with my guy and some movies. I was checking out when the perky pubescent sales clerk said “Do you want me to scan your rewards card?” I said “No, I don’t have one, thank you.” He smirked and said (with that indignation that implies that the customer must be a total idiot) “Would you like to sign up for one right now?” I took a deep breath, knowing what was coming, and politely said “No, thank you.” So, he took a deep breath and sighed his little sigh of total disgust that I was even allowed to vote in this Country since I was obviously a raging idiot for not having one of their reward cards. [Read more →]