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March 3, 2006 Issue 0004, Stupid Senate, Patriot Acts are for authoritarian
states.
Aren't you curious as to
what is going to be on
this side of the page in
the future?
That's right, the Senate just approved the USA "Patriot" Act
The vote was 89-10 in favor!  Do the Democrats just like losing elections?  That is
what it seems like to me.  Two years in a row the Dems make a show against the
Patriot Act during the State of the Union address and then they cave like a house of
cards when it comes to actually doing something about it.

Sure, they "compromised" and let a few civil liberties through.  What the hell is wrong
with the rest of the civil liberties we had prior to 2001?
It turns out that the bombing in Karachi killed a US diplomat
Bush is "defiant" and will go to Islamabad anyway.  I like this juxtaposition in an article
I read,

"Terrorists and killers are not going to prevent me from going to Pakistan," Bush said
at a news conference in India, where he signed a controversial nuclear agreement
and laid a wreath at a memorial to independence hero and nonviolence prophet
Mahatma Gandhi.

Would Bush even know who Gandhi was if it wasn't for Ben Kingsly?  Even then I bet
Bush never actually sat through the entire film opting instead to hit the gym and turn
in early.
Animal rights activists charged for terrorizing business
I can understand the motives behind groups like this and like PETA and the Animal
Liberation Front (ALF) but most of the time I find the members of these groups an
embarrassment to liberals everywhere.

So, any of you remember when ALF set free an entire mink farm in England a few
years ago?  There were something like 300,000 mink on the fur farm and none of
them were native to the British Isle.  Half were immediately killed on the freeway just
outside the farm, it was a blood and guts mink massacre out there, and the other half
destroyed the local ecosystem.  I think most militant animal rights people don't really
think before they act.

When I was in middle school there was an anti-fur protest outside Nordstroms around
Christmas one year.  My aunt and I were doing our Christmas shopping for the family,
something we do every year, and happened upon 30 or so men and women with
signs and red paint (ready for tossing on fur wearers I guess).  I noticed and pointed
out to one of the women there that her shoes and purse were made of leather.  An
animal died so that she could "look good" and was therefore a hypocrite.

One of the papers, Seattle Times I believe, even wrote about what a miserable failure
the protest was because there were people protesting that had leather jackets,
shoes, purses, etc...

There are a lot of animal righters that will use the argument, "Do you know how many
gallons of water, and pounds of grain it took to make that burger you are eating?"
and will reply with something like,  "2000 gallons of water, and 800 pounds of grain"

Whoopty shit, trust-fund hippie.  Do you realize that the cow is the most efficiently
used animal on the planet?  Name me a part of the cow that doesn't get used
somehow.  You can't do it, can you?

Hey, Audi-driving hippie, do you realize how many gallons of water and how many
pounds of grain and hops went into making that beer you're drinking?  How many
thousands of acres of the world's best vegetable-producing land went into growing
those American Spirit cigarettes you smoke?  Save your stupid arguments for
someone who doesn't have logic.
Actress who coasts through life because of her smoking-hot body
angry that Playboy put her on cover, claims it is damaging to her career
Jessica Alba, who is really hot but can't act, is suing Playboy for putting her on the
cover of its latest issue.  She claims that it might give people the wrong idea and
make them believe that she is naked inside.

She is suing to have Playboy pull the issues from newsstands and pay for the
damage to her career.

Honey, "Blue Crush" and "The Fantastic Four" were damaging enough.  There is
nothing Playboy can do that would salt your image anymore than it already is.  You
are a hot-body.  That is all you are used for.  Whether you are in a bikini or not
people are watching your movies to see your body and nothing else.

You won't win the case because Playboy can prove that being in its magazine is not
damaging to one's career.  Just look at Jenny McCarthy, Pam Anderson, Shannon
Tweed, Marylin Monroe, Sharon Stone, Cindy Crawford...

Those woman are bajillionaires or absolute legends.  Do you think you are better
than Marylin Monroe?!?  Think again.

It's not like you are posing in Penthouse.  It's Playboy, you're not naked, we're not
gazing up at your uterus.

Apparently Alba was chosen as the sexiest star of the year and is featured on a list of
25 of the sexiest stars.

A Playboy spokesperson had this to say:

"Many celebrities have appeared on the cover of Playboy, but not nude, including
Claudia Schiffer, Paris Hilton, Goldie Hawn, Raquel Welch, Barbra Streisand, Brooke
Shields and Donald Trump," Playboy spokeswoman Lauren Malone said.
Ted Stevens backs down again, won't change 1977 Magnuson
Amendment
For years, Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) has acted like Washington State's third
Senator and that is because Stevens really, really wanted to get supertankers into
the Puget Sound; one of the few waterways in the country that can handle ships of
that size.

Well, Thursday he gave up.  It turns out that it was Republican Mike McGavick, who is
seeking a U.S. Senate seat from Washington state this year that
got the job done.  
McGavick, a former aid to Washington Senator Slade Gorton (AKA Skeletor), knows
that he can't win if Republicans put supertankers into heavily populated and heavily
Democratic Puget Sound
In more Washington-specific news...
Seattle School District may close up to 12 schools
This is worst idea ever.  I spent my entire childhood and teen years reading and
watching news reports about how Seattle Schools are over-crowded, that they need
more teachers, more desks, less students in the class room...  Now that that have
those things and finally have student-to-teacher ratios where they should be for a
good learning environment what do they want to do?  Close schools and increase
class sizes.

Why are those that make decisions on education in this country so stupid?  They are
going to close those schools and then ten years from now when all of the young
adults who moved to Seattle for the tech industry have squirted out a few kids the
schools are going to be over-crowded again.

Seattle, accept the shrinking student populations as a blessing and use it.  There are
less kids and more tax revenue than ever because the population is made up of a
higher percentage of working adults.  Use this to your advantage and make those
schools into palaces.
Now a Dubai company wants to buy plants that make parts for military
vehicles and aircraft
Great.  Now they will control the entire Eastern Seaboard and make sure our military
can physically move weapons and personnel.  What is so hard about having US
corporations do this work?  Heck, I should submit a bid to take over the US ports.  At
this point the government (Bush administration) would probably be willing to pay
more to save face.
Religo-wackytown being built in Florida by founder of Domino's Pizza
A rich weirdo by the name of Thomas Monaghan
wants to
build an entire city according to "God's
Will."
He's just two parts crazy and few hundred million parts rich.  He is dropping over
$250 million of his own money into the construction of a town around Ave Maria
University, the first Catholic university built in the US in 40 years, and has plans for
the town to be built according to Roman Catholic doctrine and be free of sin.

In Ave Maria there will be no place to get an abortion, pornography or birth control
but there will be young-boy touching stations on every corner.
More Mail!!
Hi Houston!



I’m not sure if you remember me.  I got my inspiration for blogging while at BartFest
Vegas way back in 2002, in a smoke-filled room full of progressives who were already
sick of Putsch way back then.  I think I remember you, John Wesley Hardin (who used
to have a blog ripping on Ann Coulter), Will the guy who runs AWOL Bush, and a
couple of others talking trash – and, if I’m not mistaken, you were the one who was
constantly challenging the Illegally Installed Drunken Cokeheaded Usurper to a fight.  
Anyawys,… if I’m talking to the wrong guy please accept my apologies.  If not, nice to
cath up with you again…



I have been reading your site for a while now.  Bart dropped the first link to your zone
quite a while ago, and he is the one who turned me on to your site.  Please keep up
the good work, and hammer this arrogant son of a cheney on my behalf (until the
writer’s block breaks up).  And if you’re ever in the metro Detroit area, drop me a line.



Regards,



Tom Gevaert

Owner, operator, chief cook, and bottle-washer

The Funny Farm
www.funnyfarmonline.org
My old site that was on Geocities for a while is now finished (yes!), thanks for writing.  
It is nice to know that people are starting to filter on in.
Way to go Costco!
Costco, a company that treats its employees like human beings, posted a higher than
expect profit this last quarter.

At Costco your checker is making $40k a year with full benefits and that nice lady
behind the counter where you are buying a hot dog or pizza?  She's pulling down $20
an hour and can take her kids to the doctor without fear of losing pay or paying out
the nose to a useless HMO.

At the last quarterly meeting some share-holders were calling for Costco to cut
employee pay and benefits.  Costco's CEO, and co-founder Jim Sinegal threatened
to make the company private again if that is what the shareholders wanted to do.

Wal-Mart might make billions of dollars in profit every year while Costco only make a
few hundred million but what is a billion dollars and losing your soul when you could
have a hundred million and feel good about yourself?  It's all more money than I
could ever spend.
Well, there goes AmeriCorps
Why is Bush always wanting to kill programs that work?  AmeriCorps has been
nothing if not a success and is one of the great legacies of the Clinton
Administration.  Bush himself has even lauded the program in his SotU addresses.

While Bush is trying to gut this very worthwhile program "Read Across America" is
going to take place tomorrow and through the weekend (an AmeriCorps program).

What kind of dick do you have to be to cut a program that sends enthusiastic youth
to do service work all over the country from teaching children to read to assisting in
the Gulf Coast Hurricane Katrina recovery.  For what? 15 more cruise missiles?

Bush makes me sick.  How can you cut
this program?
I think there are two standard go-to stories for any news source.  The first is: "Red
wine proven to help heart" the second is...
Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Melting Rapidly
A floating iceberg off the Antarctic
Peninsula (Image: CU-Boulder National
Snow and Ice Data Center)
How many times does it have to be told to us before the crazies who believe the
Earth is 6,000 years old and think global warming is a hoax get it through their
heads?

Antarctica is losing 36 cubic miles of ice every year.  That is so much water going into
the ocean.  People really don't know how much 36 cubic miles of material is.  The
largest volcanic eruption ever recorded was the Tambora eruption of 1815 and that
was 11 cubic miles of material.  An asteroid 1 cubic mile in volume has over $4
trillion
in precious metals contained with in it.  36 cubic miles is equal to, get this,

11,867,329,696,628,736,000 cubic inches of water!  Almost twelve
quintillion cubic
inches of ice is turning into water in our oceans every year!  Holy shit!  That is just
the Antarctic, not even the Arctic with the Greenland shelf, Siberia, Northern Europe,
Alaska or Canada taken into consideration.
Republicans think they may have finally found someone to take on
Clinton in New York Senate reace
Who'd they pick?  An apprentice of Henry Kissinger who used to be the
spokeswoman for the Pentagon but hasn't had a job since 1985 when she became a
stay-at-home mom,
Kathleen Troia McFarland.  Nothing against stay-at-home moms
but if you are going to take on one of the toughest opponent politics has to offer you
are going to want to have something more than Reaganomics and Kissinger attached
to your name.

This from the NYTs:

Ms. McFarland, known as K. T., is pretty green:  She has been a stay-at-home
mother since 1985, and was drawn to the Senate race only because she already
believed she was going to lose her bid for a Congressional seat on the Upper East
Side of Manhattan.

Oh, that makes total sense.  Run for the Senate because rich people wouldn't even
elect you to the house.  Smart move, that one.

I smell another Lazio and Pirro in the making.
Bush:  "Let's go back to the Moon...  Again, but first let me smash
NASA's budget."
The White House wants to cut NASA's budget by $3 billion over the next three years.

How come no one ever wants to cut the Pentagon's budget?  What we should be
doing is boosting NASA's budget by billions of dollars.  If we were to capture an
iron-nickle asteroid and put it in orbit it would mean, literally trillions of dollars in
precious metals.  We should be sending missions to the Moon so that we can harvest
ultra-rare helium-3 and build nuclear power plants out of it.  Such stations on the
Moon could transmit the energy back very easily and efficiently using microwave
lasers.

Imagine an infinite, powerful energy source that did not require power plants to be
here on the Earth?  No pollution, no NIMBY, nothing.

Heck, we could build gigantic spherical mirrors inside craters on the Moon and have
gigantic telescopes that would allow us to see light billions of times as faint as
anything here on the surface of the Earth.

Space is the last frontier let's start making a ton of money off of it already.
Gary Glitter is going to prison for 3 years for being a disgusting pervert
who rapes children
Way to go, Gary, you are such a winner.
Korea beat Taiwan 2-0 in the first game of the World Baseball Classic

It was a good game.  I wish for two things out of this:  #1 they have announcers who
can tell me what is going on because I have no idea who any of these players on
most of Korea's and all of Taiwan's team are, and #2 Just call it the "World Cup of
Baseball" because that's what it is.
Japan beats the holy-hell out of China 18-2 in the second game of WBC
No mercy shown by Japanese.  Heck, China did better than UH Hilo does against
most of their opponents.
Last Issue
Please, If you do use anything off of this site reference it back to me so that I can become
famous.  Thank You.
Just stare at those lines.  Isn't it just
wigging you out?