"Cash for Clunkers" bill passes" .....wind

special report by correspondent Eternal Vigilance

"It ended up being right place, right time for me," said Metzler, 42, who traded his eight-year-old sport utility vehicle for a new Chevrolet Equinox this week. "It seemed like a good opportunity."

"It's a wonderful program. It helps out the environment, it helps out the customer, and it gives a jump to the automobile industry when it needs it the most," said Scott Gruwell, sales director of Courtesy Chevrolet, the Phoenix-based General Motors dealership that sold Metzler his Equinox.


Metzler, a Phoenix-valley insurance executive, had racked up 150,000 miles in his old SUV that averaged 17 miles per gallon. He got a $3,500-credit toward his new car, which gets a slender 3 mpg improvement."

-Reuters

You read right: a slender 3, count 'em, 3 mpg improvement.

So the taxpayers picked up the $3,500. tab for this fucker's 8-year-"old" SUV...... for a NEWER SUV!!!!! Aaaaarrrgggghhh!!!!!!!!

Yeah, I wanna trade in my Hummer H2 for a Hummer H3, please.

Smoke Out The Deficit!

Marijuana smokers demand to be taxed!

Contribute enough, and you won't care anymore!

It's a win-win!

6 Million Dollar Pitchman

Lee Major's Bionic Hearing Aid:
http://www.trybionicear.com/

But wouldn't Lindsay Wagner have made more sense?!?

Behold My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair

Bad Country! Bad!

Bachmann Turner Overdrive

Look out - it's ACORN!





And it gets better:

"Take this into consideration. If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations at the request of President Roosevelt, and that's how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps," said Bachmann.

How soon they forget.

Under Bush, the Japanese Internment was a GOOD THING:



Clearly she forgot to vet this with Coulter and Malkin.

When is she going to throw the Blue Helmets and Black Helicopters into the mix?

Help us, Obi-2ndAmendment-empowered-vigilantemilitias! You're our only hope!

Funny Because It's True

Funny Videos | Funny Cartoons | More Video Clips

More '80s toy movies coming your way.

This is what they get for canceling the sacred day that was Saturday Morning.

Accept No Substitutes

Having made a succession of increasingly stupid movies, M. Knight Shamalacka now sets his sights on making a smart cartoon a stupid movie:

Hear, Hear

"When Sony BMG massively and illegally distributed music CDs containing spyware that compromised individual users' computer security and infected government and military networks worldwide, the FTC only ordered them in 2007 to reimburse end-users up to $150 for computer damages. Yet when Ms. Thomas shared 24 songs belonging to Sony BMG and other labels on the Internet, she was penalized $80,000 for each single track.

"This isn't a question about whether file-sharing is wrong -- the question is what does this say about our priorities? We're living in a time when executives can dismantle companies that have become American icons and instead of fines, receive bonuses.

"The application of existing law in this case may have been technically correct, but used to protect the recording industry from losses that could have cost them pennies, with a $1.9 million fine against a music fan."

- CCIA President Ed Black on the RIAA's "victory" in the Thomas-Rasset infringement case.

Full article :http://www.mi2n.com/press.php3?press_nb=120806

Sunday Star Blazers Special

"Reward" footage found on Space Battleship Yamato pachinko game:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYd8dC_WDVw

Because I am always thinking of ways to make you happy.

Irony in the RSS Inbox

These 2 stories, one on top of the other:

Justices Rule Inmates Don’t Have Right to DNA Tests

and

Police chief apologizes to man freed by DNA tests after 17 years behind bars for murder

sigh

Not For Kids or the Squeamish

"13th Nationwide high school student wrist cut rally" !

With a trailer like that, what other horrors can we expect from Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl?



Premiering at the NY Asian Film Fest, June 26th.

Internet Team-up Presents:

SeaArrrgh II - Protesting the Cult of scientology - June 13 & 20, 2009 -- from TheDonzerlyLight on Vimeo.

Rogue File-sharers join forces with Unternet Tricksters to battle mammon-worshiping SF religious empire!

As of today they are announcing a new round of “attacks” that will be pirate themed, with pirate support.

In true Pirate style The Pirate Bay has decided to back the operation with a banner linking to Anonymous’ latest campaign “Operation Sea Arrrgh 2″ on their home page. New protests on and offline are will be executed soon, staring this weekend.

“Our next protests are all pirate themed. Our flyers and other material will mostly be about their ship the Freewinds and the many abuses that have taken place on there, and then of course the rest of the scams and atrocities they have committed and continue to perpetrate,” Anonymous told TorrentFreak.

-TF

Most impressive? Branding your protest movement!

The revolution will be advertized!

Next up: Fembots and Robot Bigfoot!

He Loves, He Loves Me Not

Don't Open It!

In the name of all that's holy, leave that bottle corked!

17th century urine-filled 'witch bottle' found

-MSNBC

Anatomy of a Parody

Artwork:


Homework:


there you have it kids, the secret is in the details!

(thanks to CS)

Watch Out, Cherry Coke

Green Tea Coca-Cola.

You know you want it, you soda slurping health nuts.

With catechins! Yum!

Apocalypse Watch : Day 721,006

NASIRIYAH, Iraq (AFP) – A plague of snakes has caused panic in Iraq's southern province of Nasiriyah, biting cattle and worrying residents as poisonous reptiles flee their dens in the country's water-deprived marshes.

-AFP

Going faster than a Roller Coaster...

Sci Fi Saturday Matinee

Font Fun

Course I would have gone with Battlestar: Courier, cuz Helvetica is way Cylony...

Reason # 1084 Why I Thank God I Don't Live In Texas

The Supreme Court has turned away a challenge from a death row inmate in Texas who claimed his constitutional rights were violated by jurors who consulted a Bible during deliberations.

Jurors reviewed a biblical passage relating that a murderer who used an iron object to kill "shall surely be put to death." They were deciding whether to impose a death sentence on Khristian Oliver for fatally shooting and bludgeoning his victim with the barrel of a gun.

The court previously has said that jurors should base their verdicts only on evidence presented in the courtroom.

(AP)

The Dark Side of Biz School Management

Beware, Helicopter Ben, Beware.

"Not Sponsored by Fox"

Fox donates $500,000 in free ads to Tea Bag movement.
But is "not sponsoring" the event.
I wish someone would not sponsor me to the tune of half a mill.
And why exactly is a news organization getting away with overt, biased propaganda events?
Does the FCC and the FTC even do anything for the public good anymore?

http://mediamatters.org/items/200904170011?f=h_latest

A Student of History

"Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression,"
-Texas' Republican Gov. Rick "Don't Let The Door Hit You In Your Ass On The Way Out" Perry

Not counting Spain, France, Mexico, The USA, and the Union Army, that is.

Wasn't even true when Houston said it.