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Save an Animal and Have a Very Merry and/or Happy Christmakwanzakkah

Mr. Kitten Mittens and me.1

Late last Sunday night, I saw a link on Facebook asking if anyone in the area (SoCal) could save a dog that was scheduled to be sent to the Great Farm in the Sky on Monday.  He looked like a cocker spaniel and since Nate Dogg is a cocker spaniel, I figured it would be downright un-Christmas-like un-Holiday Season-like of me not to snag him.   I haven’t fostered a dog in ages, and my dog is an old man who is content to lie around, fart, and feast on treats all day. I’m not sure my tired old ass can handle the energy of a younger dog.  Still, I figured I could at least hang on to him for a few weeks; fatten him up; get his cherry eye removed (a common condition for cocker spaniels); and shine him up like a new penny, so the odds of him finding a permanent home would be better.

So, on Monday afternoon, I popped down to the shelter, had a brief chat with the dog, decided he’d do, paid for him to be neutered, and stayed his imminent execution.

Five days and one junk-removal surgery later, Foster the Dog aka Mr. Kitten Mittens and I were posing with Santy Claus:

Happy December 25th to all and to all a good night!

Every Saturday in December, OC Animal Care is offering free pictures with Santa.  Click here for more info, and for the love of humanity, if you’re planning on getting a dog for yourself or for a loved one, ADOPT!  ADOPT!  ADOPT!  There are so many adorable dogs that need homes.  There are so many adorable dogs — like Mr. Kitten Mittens who is currently fast asleep in his crate after having been completely ignored by Nate Dogg — that are being killed because shelters and rescue groups can’t find good homes for them.  Seriously.  Don’t buy a dog.  Don’t make me come over there.  I will cut you. And then I’ll sing that “In the Arms of the Angels” song until you lose your mind.

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There's A War on Christmas, Y'all!

Oy vey.  With the war and the Christmas?  Let’s go eat some Chinese food.

It’s that time of year again, sleigh bells are slinging (or ringing or singing or whatever), and that little drummer boy is causing a ruckus, much like this guy:

Christmas is in the air, and those secular secularists are trying to destroy it!  It’s a goddamn Christmas jihad, and Senator Inhofe will not let this aggression stand, man!

Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe (R) says he won’t participate in Tulsa’s annual Holiday Parade Of Lights until the “forces of political correctness” put “Christmas” back in the title. “I’m not going to ride in a Christmas parade that doesn’t recognize Christmas,” he said.

“Last year, the forces of political correctness removed the word ‘Christmas’ and replaced it with ‘Holiday’ instead,” the Tulsa World reports Inhofe said. “I am deeply saddened and disappointed by this change.”

He continued:

I am hopeful that the good people of Tulsa and the city’s leadership will demand a correction to this shameful attempt to take Christ, the true reason for our celebration, out of the parade’s title. Until the parade is again named the Christmas Parade of Lights, I will not participate.

::eyeroll::

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Madness's Musings on Thanksgiving

The International Date Line Proves its Worth

Get this: If you celebrate Thanksgiving while flying in a plane that is traveling around the world in an easterly direction, then you can have *two* Thanksgivingses!

O maybe it’s westerly…

Either way, I bet Thanksgiving in Australia is off the chain.

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TSA's Enhanced Airport Security Spurs Outrage: The Apple Daily Video

Sexxxy.

[via Next Media Animation.tv]

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The TSA Wants to Molester You and Your Family at the Airport

NO TOUCHING!

November 24 is “opt-out day.”  Activists (and the U.S. Pilots Association, even!) are hoping Americans will send the TSA a message this Thanksgiving, and that message is this:

STOP FEELING ME UP.

From Wired:

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Google's Veteran's Day Logo is All Muslim 'n Shit

ZOMG YOU GUYZ!!  TEH GOOGLE IS AL KAYDA!!!

I don’t know if you heard, but despite whatever those uppity people who have studied the Constitution say, know this: SHARIA LAW HAS SHOVED ITS DIRTY SAND-LADEN FINGERS INTO THE PATRIOTIC SOIL OF THESE UNITED STATES!!

You know Google, right?  It’s like this internet search engine or something.  They are fairly whimsical with their holiday celebrations.  Usually they celebrate the day within the standards that have been set for internet search engines since time immemorial.  But they’ve run into some trouble lately.  Last year, I wrote about Google’s hatred of our veterans. (Google decided to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Tetris on D-Day instead of celebrating D-Day on D-Day.)

You know D-Day, right?  It has something to do with the World War.

Which one?  I don’t know.  There were only two.  Take your pick.

All you need to know is that it’s a very patriotic affair, and you best be wearing your flag pin on D-Day or you’ll be castigated for being a freedom-hater.  Also, too, if you dare celebrate the anniversary of one of the most kick ass games of our time on this “D-Day,” then you hate America and should move to France.

I wasn’t bothered by Google’s Tetris shenanigans.  I was willing to forgive Google’s America-hating ass because I love Tetris more than I love America.

But this?  This is just too much for my red-blooded American patriotic heart to bear:

What the fuck?!  Does it look like those socialist Muslim-loving American-hating googling bastards celebrated Veteran’s Day by changing their logo to a burning flag with a crescent moon sticking out of it?  Because that’s what it looks like to me!  Google hates us for our freedom!  This is an outrage!

WE HAVE BEEN INFILTRATED, PEOPLE!  THIS IS NOT A DRILL!  I REPEAT THIS IS NOT A DRILL!

Motifs of the American flag have become a regular addition to Google’s artistic repertoire celebrating patriotic holidays but today’s Veterans Day doodle has sparked a measure of controversy.

RL from Product-Reviews.net sums up the outrage perfectly, “An American flag covering a partial showing Islamic crescent moon…good job GOOGLE…way to do your part to further fan the flames of tension between the western world and the Islamic community. Lets see how you play dumb and spin this.”

Exactly. Way to go, Google. Give crazies such as Pamela Geller, Terry Jones and Tea Party patriots the fuel they need to wage an all-out slugfest of vitriol against Islam for ruining an American tradition. The Google doodle is distasteful at best, hateful at worst, for this Veterans Day.

Your Google doodle is supposed to enlighten and educate those who click on it, not cause a rift between two world powers.

In a civilized society we need to show respect. We show respect by opening the door for the elderly. We show respect by thanking a soldier for fighting for us. We show respect by saluting the flag when in uniform. We show respect by not desecrating someone’s sacred symbol.

Google’s Veterans Day doodle needs to show the flag, and any possible representations of it, respectfully. In times of peace, flags of all countries fly at the same level. The same should be true of American and Islamic ideals. There is no reason why they two can peacefully coexist. We don’t live in Salem, Massachusettts in the 1650s. No more witch hunts.

I’m disappointed in Google’s doodle for this Veterans Day. Our president just left the world’s largest Islamic country when he visited Indonesia. He treated Islam with respect. Is this doodle the way we show the world we are civilized and respectful? No wonder Islamic extremists hate us.

Wait, what?!  I’m confused.  What’s the point of the article?

Frankly, I don’t know what the article means.  Is it satire?  It’s not over-the-top enough to be satire.  Is it serious?  The arguments in the article are contradictory.  Is it saying that Islamofascists are going to see Google’s logo and think, “DEATH TO AMERICA!  EVEN THEIR SEARCH ENGINES HATE US FOR OUR HUMMUS!!”

Or is the article saying that the American flag has been desecrated because there’s a Allahdamn crescent moon sticking out of its ass?

I DON’T KNOW.  WHAT DOES IT MEAN?!  HOW DO MAGNETS WORK?

Well, I may not know what that particular article was trying to say, but this tripe from World Fuckery News Daily (it’s where all the idiots get their news!) confirms my suspicion that teh Google really hates America: Continue reading

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Happy National Punctuation Day!

How did you celebrate?

I can’t let National Punctuation Day go unnoticed.1 I don’t have much to say about punctuation.  It’s good.  You should use it, not abuse it.  Apostrophes are your friend.

Here are some of the  NPD plans/musings of some of my Facebook Friends and Family: Continue reading

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Tea Partiers in Kentucky Celebrate Independence Day by Wearing “Yup, I’m a Racist” T-Shirts

[I just sat down to write a post about these dumbasses in their dumbass t-shirts but had a sense that I'd covered this ground before. Turns out, I have. Soooooo, I'm making this post sticky for a while. When idiots get some new material, I'll write some new material. Also, Dave Weigel? Journalism fail. Then again, folks figured out you were a hack when you posted dick pics to Twitter during WeinerMadness 2011. Is there no one left who take journalism seriously?  Don't look at me.  I'm just a blogger. -ABLxx 7/5/11]

Stupid is as stupid does, asshats.

At a fourth of July celebration in Lexington Kentucky yesterday, white folks were wearing t-shirts that had “Yup, I’m a racist” emblazoned on the front. A reporter at the Louisville Independent Examiner interviewed some of these asshats, and wouldn’t you know, they’re all idiots.

Look, I understand that people have valid differences of opinion when it comes to government.  Small versus big.  Regulation vs. deregulation.  Low taxes vs. high taxes.  I GET IT.

But here’s what you need to understand: From what I can tell, a lot of these Tea Party people do not know what the hell they are talking about.  They just don’t.  These are the same people who were screaming about healthcare reform, and Obamacare out of one side of their mouths, while screaming  “keep the government out of Medicare!” out of the other.  These are not people who are using their noggins, is what I’m saying.

Ask your average Tea Partier what the hell it is they want, and you won’t get an answer.  They just “want their country back,” or they “want their rights back,” or they “want the government to stop taking away their rights.”  So what’s the deal?  Did somebody steal America?  Can you please give it back to these asshats so they will STFU.

As for the “we want our rights back” crap, just replace the word “rights” with “guns.”  That’s what this is really about, isn’t it?  What rights have been stolen from you?  Oh, none.

The truth is, Obama isn’t taking away anybody’s rights.  You may disagree with his spending policies, and you may disagree with his social policies, and you may disagree with his foreign policy.  But you cannot say that he is taking your rights away.  Taxes for everyone but the hella rich are lower under Obama than they were under Bush.  And really… with the guns?  For Biebs’ sake, you’re allowed to carry guns in national fucking parks!  The Supreme Court just affirmed everyone’s right to keep guns in their houses and blow people’s heads off for practically no reason at all!  “I don’t like your face!  And neither does my AK-47!  ::rat-a-tat-tat::”

So seriously?  Shut the hell up about Obama wanting to take your rights away.  You don’t know what you’e talking about.  And you’re stupid “Yup, I’m a racist” t-shirt is going to end up on the back of some black hipster in Silverlake, and everyone will “ooh and aah” at the irony of it all.  Your stupidity is only making the hipsters stronger.  So just fucking quit it, won’t you?

Check out the video after the jump.  At the 1:30 marker, the woman being interviewed, who doesn’t have a clue as to what she’s talking about– not one clue — because she is probably a member of Fox Nation, says that Pakistanis are coming across the border in Arizona.

Fucking Pakistanis.  Crossing the border.  Into Mexico.

Go ahead and marinate on that for a minute.

[video after the jump]

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Happy Independence Day

A final word on this, our Independence Day…

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