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My favorite stupid stories of the year!

 

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January

OK, can we PLEASE let Keiko the friggin' whale rest in peace??  Jesus!  These people are acting like this whale cured diseases, ended world hunger, stopped the aging process, and discovered life on Neptune!  It's a WHALE.  Yes, I'm sure he was a nice whale, and I'm sure he had a kind soul and all that.  But come on...a burial mound?  Why don't these kids just build a great flaming funeral pyre and throw themselves onto it?  Get it over with and get on with your lives, people.

Like, what do you know?  Britney Spears, like, was married for a couple of days and stuff before, like, getting divorced and junk.  But she now says, you know, that she "totally believes in the sanctity of marriage" and stuff.  Like, cool, Britneh!

Oh, heaven forbid that some dork in plaid golf pants should feel uncomfortable on his precious waste of land (a.k.a. golf course) because some harmless homeless guy has been living there for the past 40 years.  Can you believe that?  These golf morons need to get off their country-club high horses (golf carts) and feel a shred of compassion.  If he hasn't hurt anyone in 40 years, why would he start now?

Great news!  All you folks in Iraq will now be able to fully enjoy the sugary, nutrition-free joy of Pepsi Cola.  Yes, Pepsi is looking to relaunch its line of soft drinks with full fanfare in Iraq, because everyone knows that the Great Pepsi Draught during Saddam's reign has caused much misery amongst his people.  Down with dictators, up with sugerwater!  Praise Allah 'n' stuff!

Oh, like we didn't know this ho was lying about losing that lottery ticket.  Gurl, you ain't foolin' nobody.

February

An FCC investigation over a breast?  Something most of us have had in our mouths at one time or another (my first/last time being at birth, ahem)?  Are we living in the Dark Ages?  It's a breast, not a full frontal.  Grow up and deal with it, America.  And as for you, FCC investigators:  shame on you for wasting our money and insulting our intelligence.

I just can't believe what comes out of the mouths of some people in positions of authority.  This judge, for example, had the audacity comment about a rape victim, "Why would he want to rape her?"  And wait till you see his photo. :)  Pot, meet kettle.

March

The Dark Ages are alive and well in Rhea County, Tennessee.  These people actually want to ban homosexuals from living there.  "We need to keep them out of here," says one official.  Actually, I have a better idea.  Let's just build a nice big wall around your little shithole county so you'll be free to live isolated and ignorant.  You can keep inbreeding and producing hateful, ignorant little spawn who will grow up to be hateful, ignorant adults.  We'll call it the Zoo for Morons and charge people admission to come watch you in all your evil, hate-filled glory.  Sound like a plan?

April

"Okay, like, our sorority is gonna give blood at the blood drive, right?  And, like, they don't want us to, you know, give blood if we've got, like, recent piercings and stuff, you know?  But, like, it's totally okay to give blood anyway, 'cause, you know, we're, like, a sorority and stuff, and we gotta win this contest no matter what!  Come on, girls!"  Absolutely amazing.  The fact that she sent out an email to 170 people is even more amazing.

Somebody please explain this to me.  WHY is a mother of 14 children (pregnant with unit #15, no less) being honored for having so many children?  Is it necessary to bring so many children (in a single family) into this world, and why are we rewarding this sort of thing?  I know it's a personal choice, and I would never say that a couple can't have children.  But to me, this reveals an irrational desire to breed like rabbits and carry on some sort of "legacy."  Can't two or three kids do that?  What's the rationale behind having 15 children, and how many will be enough?  How sad that this woman appears to have no other desires or goals in life other than to be barefoot and pregnant, which is probably just how her husband likes her.  Remember that scene from Monty Python's "Meaning of Life" where the woman is washing dishes and a baby falls out from between her legs?  "Here comes another one!"  It's even more irritating when parents name all their children starting with the same letter...all 15 of these kids (and the dozens still to come) are all named Joshua, John-David, Josiah, Jinger (?), etc.  *sigh*

May

This is just too stupid for words.  This dumbass is actually vowing to destroy a turkey who scratched his precious gas-guzzling SUV.  "My vehicle just depreciated quite a bit.  But that doesn't matter. He'll be in the freezer soon."  Somebody please slap this guy and tell him to grow up, would ya please?

I sure didn't hear much about this in the news when it happened:  The General Accounting Office classified three videos produced by the Bush administration about new Medicare laws as PROPAGANDA.  That's right!  Imagine, propaganda coming from the Bushies!  Who knew?  Ho ho!

June

I am stunned.  There is actually a company which will beam your personal message into space (for a fee, of course) as a kind of voicemail to the Great Beyond.  People are actually using this service as a way to "say goodbye" to loved ones who have died.  Some are gaining "closure" by broadcasting their one-minute message into space.  This is so ludicrous, I almost don't know what to say (almost).  We're dealing with radio waves, people...they travel through space for eons.  Why would you send a voicemail to a dead relative with radio waves?  Is Heaven on a planet on the other side of the universe?  That's where your message is going, so I hope someone is there to receive it.  And has the technology to make the waves audible.  And understands your language.  And...  I do understand the emotional side, and the need to have one last word with someone who has died, but this just seems silly.  (On a side note, it's interesting to see how many people perceive God and Heaven as far away, in another physical place "up there," separate from us.  It's no wonder so many people feel detached from God and their dearly departed.)

In their latest absurd effort to scare the living hell out of us and never give us a worry-free moment (without providing any specific details as to why), the Bush folks actually tried to convince us that portable beer coolers are the new tools of terror.  That's right...a beer cooler near you could be housing a nuclear device that will level the entire city.  Then again, maybe not.  But it MIGHT!!  It's the silliest hunk of terror-related bullshit to come out of this administration yet.

July

Just when we think we've seen the stupidest that the right wing has to offer, from the childish Freedom Fries to the staggeringly simple-minded patriotic ice cream, they somehow manage to pull something completely new and insulting out of their ass in the name of freedom and patriotism (oh yeah, and profit).  Now we're faced with patriotic ketchup.  That's right...ketchup.  All-American ketchup.  Made in the U.S.A.  Hooray...finally we have an alternative to the tyrannical Heinz brand.  It's called "W Ketchup" of all things.  The company swears that the "W" stands for "Washington."  Yeah, sure it does, whatever you say.  Are you people finished making fools of yourselves yet?

Oh, no!  Homeland Security guru Tom Ridge just gave us another warning about some sort of terror!  It's going to happen somewhere in America at an unspecified date and time.  Probably.  He don't know what it is, but it's going to happen one way or another.  Most likely.  So stay afraid, America!  Never relax!  Never feel safe again, because Tom and the Ministry of Fear want you on edge at all hours of the day...you know, just in case.

August

Got an itty-bitty penis?  Drive a Hummer?  They go hand-in-hand, you know.  And now you can actually adorn yourself with the stench of Hummer, further enhancing the illusion that you actually have something down there worth speaking of.  That's right, now they're making their own cologne...spray it on and watch the chicks snicker!

Another story from the Dept. of Religious Claptrap.  So this little girl is deathly allergic to gluten, which is found in communion wafers.  Does the church allow a substitution?  Does the church make any effort to understand her problem?  Does the church stop to consider that maybe God doesn't care what's in the wafer, but rather is more interested in her desire to worship the best she can?  We're dealing with religious rules manufactured by people in the name of God...if you don't agree with Law #39X8473-B on page 845 of Volume IX of the Catalogue of Holy Laws and Stuff, you're just plain out of luck...start packin' your bags for Hell or Purgatory or wherever we think you're going to go.  Why?  Because we said so.  Who has time for God when we're busy following rules & regulations?  Now, kneel and open your pocketbook.  Good girl.

Once again, people are turning to technology as a way to commune with God...and, as a result, further separating themselves from God.  Now people are emailing prayers to temples and receiving text-message blessings on their cell phones, and they actually seem to think that this is going to bring them closer to the Divine.  I don't care what version of God you worship, but if you can't be bothered to sit quietly and actually give your chosen deity a moment of your time, maybe you ought to just drop your charade and admit that your religious convictions pretty much a fashion accessory.

Further proof that popular country music is written for the lowest common denominator out there... Country-fried twit Charlie Daniels has basically called an entire group of people rag-heads with his song "This Ain't No Rag, It's A Flag."  What a clever rhyme, hyuk-hyuk!  (This is from the same album which features a song called "What This World Needs Is A Few More Rednecks.")  He delivers such deep, thoughtful lyrics as:  "This ain't no rag, it's a flag and we don't wear it on our heads.  It's a symbol of the land where the good guys live.  Are you listening to what I said?"  Yeah, I'm listening.  And what I'm hearing is the same old racism-sprinkled drivel that's been oozing out of the country music scene since 9/11:  we're the good guys who can do no wrong, all non-Americans are "bad guys", and we'll be painting the rest of the world with broad strokes for years to come, right?  'Cause we're America, the center of the universe.  And his statements on this matter indicate that he just can't understand how this attitude can be insulting and offensive...he claims to be targeting only certain people, but his lyrics say otherwise.  Well, the world is filled with enough hate...please keep your inbred, xenophobic tripe to yourself, asshole.

September
This is the month I started using blogger.com.

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