This Blog Is Full Of Crap

The Houston Comets are toast.

Who was that imbecile on City Council that said the city should buy the team?

This has got me laughing:

The news came as a shock to former Comets player Cynthia Cooper-Dyke, who was the WNBA MVP in 1997 and 1998 and led the Comets, along with Sheryl Swoopes and Tina Thompson to the team's four championships before retiring in 2000.

"This is disturbing news," Cooper-Dyke said. "This is a team that was an integral part of the WNBA. It is a team that helped establish the league, helped the league grow roots."

Cooper said that the Comets would be missed and that the city of Houston needs a WNBA team.

Well, if it's so fucking important to the city, Cooper, why don't you buy the team and run it?

The Astros are interested in bringing back Mike Hampton after the Atlanta Braves have pretty much soaked up all that can be gotten out of this injury-prone meatball pitcher.

What the fuck is it with Drayton that makes him want to get "hometown heroes" like Woody Williams and Mike Hampton way past their prime?

Woody was done, no doubt about it. They gave the guy a two-year contract, he stunk for the first, and he washed out of Spring to pick up an easy 6 million.

The next time Drayton begs the city for favors, the city should point to Woddy Williams and say "We're going to trust you not to fuck us over after doing THAT to the team?"

Yeah, Roger and Raggedy Andy had something left in them, but not much. Just enough to boost with a little juice and then pray that Bush-43 pardons them both before blowing town. They certainly weren't part of the team when they were down here, looking for a bigger check at any opportunity.

Then there's Preston Wilson... the guy was a batting champ for one year and then took a huge nosedive, but the Astros kept mentioning that batting champ title.

Plot the guy's batting average, and you see it goes from title to toilet fast - and the toilet was Left Field in Minutemaid.

And then there's Blum. What a mistake there - why not wait until he retires before picking him up off the discard pile?

I can't wait for Drayton to ring up Nolan Ryan and say "Hey, you got 7 no-hitters... think you got an eighth in ya?"

It's only a matter of time.

Every industry is coming up with excuses to suck blood out of the taxpayers to cover for their rotten business plans, awful service, unethical business practices, overeliance on marketing bullshit and fraudulent accounting methods instead of quality performance, and mismanagment.

One domino knocks down the next.

When the television network executives go to Washington for a bailout, they should be forced to watch this shit before being told to get the fuck out of the building.

A TV buff like Rosie O'Donnell knows the Nielsen score: Rosie Live ain't living on.

On her website Friday, O'Donnell wrote, in her usual undercase, shorthand style, that "there will b no more" variety specials.

Rosie Live, broadcast, yes, live on NBC on Wednesday, was billed not only as O'Donnell's return to TV after her public divorce from The View, but as TV's return to the random-guest-star ways of the variety genre.

No. Really.

Who comes up with stupid ideas like this?

And how can the same network that has a hit like Heroes air such miserable garbage as Rosie's band of babbling, blundering boneheads?

Today is World AIDS Day.

Not sure what to do about it besides run around screaming "AIDS!"

I mean, I'm aware of AIDS. I know that the idea of opening a Bodily Fluid Exchange is a bad idea, going around humping everything in sight without a condom on, sharing needles with others - those are bad ideas.

Am I in some kind of bubble that it's hard for me to believe there are people out there who are not aware of AIDS?

Who are these people? What kind of bubble are they in? Why the fuck aren't they being given the right information and resources so they're both aware of AIDS and can do something about it?

Perhaps if I look at it from another angle - are these people being deliberately misinformed by religious and political authorities? What crazy-assed remedies are they having their heads filled with instead of...

"Don't lick any part of Jim "Bleeding Sores" McGinty."

"Just because you paid a hundred zlotys for that whore, you still need to wrap your love-weasel."

South Africa had their share of these nutbars, kooks, and throwbacks in Mandela's circle of thugs posing as a transition administration. With liberation came the unwelcome tribal madness, and that raised a quick crop of ignorance.

*sigh*

And then there's the scumbags who deliberately go out trying to infect others, the rare crazy types who go out boffing anything within reach before they're picked up by confused authorities.

You can take down a rabid dog, but what do you do about these deliberate infectors?

Tolerance and compassion are important, sure, but there's a limit.

Maybe there's a cure around the corner. Maybe there isn't.

Until then, prevention and awareness are in order. (And punches in the face for the kooks.)

An interesting development in the aftermath of the Mumbai Massacres:

A Muslim graveyard has refused to bury nine gunmen who terrorized Mumbai over three days last week, leaving at least 172 people dead and wreaking havoc at some of its most famous landmarks.

The men are not true followers of the Islamic faith, according to the influential Muslim Jama Masjid Trust, which runs the 7.5-acre Badakabrastan graveyard in downtown Mumbai.

"People who committed this heinous crime cannot be called Muslim," said Hanif Nalkhande, a trustee. "Islam does not permit this sort of barbaric crime."

Is this a condemnation of the attack, a denial that the attack has any connection to Islam, or both?

Not everybody got the "These are not Muslims" memo, of course:

Even militants must be given a proper burial, said scholar Maulauna Zubair Ahmed.

"As per the Shariah, the trust cannot say no," he said, referring to Islamic law. "The Shariah says whether a Muslim is a drunkard, rapist, criminal, you must offer him a place for burial."

So they're not Muslims for purposes of terrorism, but they are Muslims for purposes of burial?

Which is it?

I'm sure there's plenty of cemeteries in Gaza and the West Bank that would willingly accept these new residents for what they did. Probably name a few streets and UNRWA-funded soccer teams after them, too.

*shrug* I say chop 'em up and feed 'em to the elephants.

The tree is up and the lights are plugged in.

So is the cat.

Got a note yesterday:

You should do that Christmas thing again.

Um... no.

I barely have time to do what I do now, and past efforts sputtered and fizzled as the season went on. My other writing suffered greatly during those times, and the same jokes kept coming up again and again.

Instead, I'm focusing on the Tunes inSL Gallery Project so that people have a convenient way to buy live musician albums from Second Life when they get Amazon or iTunes gift cards.

After thinking about the Islamic terror attacks in Mumbai, I have come to the conclusion that the answer to such madness is charity.

So, who wants to help me form a nonprofit called "Chainsaws For Ashura" ?

When I was very little, I reached for a can of Hi-C on a high shelf and caused the entire case to empty on to my foot.

A toenail was crushed in the canalanche, and it was quite disgusting.

Last night, I was getting some milk to drink, when a green can of Kraft Parmesan Cheese fell out of the fridge and landed on my right foot.

The results aren't as disgusting as the canalanche of my distant memory, but I've taken painkillers and iced down my foot to not much avail.

Nothing's broken, but the sucker hurts and I can't get a shoe on it.

Four-day weekend in the worst way, eh.

I'm sure that when he wakes up and realizes he's got his daddy for another full day, Nardo's going to be thrilled.

After going back through old photos of the cats, decided to snap a few of the last one standing... well.... not quite standing...

Sitting on the sofa with a sleepy cat on Thanksgiving.

He knows he doesn't have much in the way of rivals for the turkey this year.

Be thankful for the time you have with them.

I woke up before the usual alarm clock time.

Doesn't matter if it's a holiday... my biological clock has been messed with big time by the work schedule, eh.

So, I fire up the laptop, log in, and "Give Me Coffee" starts playing on the Blackberry on the nightstand.

Oops.

It's fun to try to run through the darkness to shut that sucker off.

Especially since my normal morning flashlight is... the LED screen on the Blackberry.

Ehud Olmert is clinging to his office for as long as he can...

Speaking at a hastily called meeting of the Kadima faction at the party's Petah Tikva headquarters, Livni quoted Olmert, who called upon then-president Moshe Katsav to resign when Mazuz decided to indict him. She said that Olmert merely needed to take his own advice.

"Kadima was formed to wave the banner of clean governance," Livni said. "The prime minister like anyone else in Israel is innocent until proven guilty, but citizen Olmert should fight from his home and not from the position of prime minister. Israel cannot tolerate having a prime minister who has been indicted. It is a moral, ethical, and practical test. The prime minister must suspend itself. There is no other option."

Kadima was formed by Ariel Sharon to do one thing: carry out the withdrawal from Gaza.

Everything after that has been directionless incompetence in the hands of his bumbling understudies.

The Vatican is going solar:

And then there was light -- and it was powered by the sun. The Vatican on Wednesday activated a new solar energy system and announced an ambitious plan that could one day make it an alternative energy exporter.

The massive roof of the "Nervi Hall" where popes hold general audiences and concerts are performed, has been covered with 2,400 photovoltaic panels to provide energy for lighting, heat and air conditioning.

After weeks of tests, the system went on line at full throttle hours before Pope Benedict held what officials called the "first ecological general audience in the Vatican."

The new system on the 5,000 square meter roof will produce 300 kilowatt hours (MWh) of clean energy a year for the audience hall and surrounding buildings.

The 1.2 million euro ($1.6 million) system, devised and donated by German companies SolarWorld and SMA Solar Technology, will allow the 108-acre city-state to cut its carbon dioxide emissions by about 225 tons and save the equivalent of 80 tons of oil each year.

Way cool.

Sure, it's donated equipment, but here's hoping this somehow convinces other outdated institutions of wretched excess and waste end up seeing the light... and point solar cells at it.

There's a terror alert on for New York City public transit.

On the other hand, I'm sure that Al-Qaeda's looking at Houston's METRO and leaving it alone.

No sense in messing with an organization that's already causing widespread damage to the local populace, right?

Happy Thanksgiving everyone... and mind the illegal left turns.

The topic of Paris Hilton and dumb celebrities and it's better to be rich than smart came up.

COWORKER: "I like the commercial Paris Hilton is in."

ME: "What product is for?"

COWORKER: "I don't know, but it's..."

ME: "If it's such a good commercial, why don't you remember the product, eh?"

If that company is asking for a bailout, the government should tell them to fuck off and die.

We the taxpayers don't need to be wasting our money on saving companies too stupid to make commercials that actually have people remember what their product is.

At least when people do the AFLAC! sound of the duck, they know the company name, eh.

While the United Nations comes together to demonize Israel more than it usually does, Israelis are... well... um... working hard to make everybody's life better?

Surgeons of the future may have to learn welding rather than sewing, now that a team of applied physicists at Tel Aviv University have developed an efficient and safe way to close incisions in the skin that they say could also be used on cuts inside the body.

The team was led by Prof. Abraham Katzir, who found a way to maintain laser heat at the correct temperature so that the incision is sealed to minimize the risk of infection and scars and speed healing.

Katzir says the development is "a groundbreaking medical technology" and could also be used quickly and easily by medics on the battlefield and at road accidents, as well as by plastic surgeons and other surgical specialists.

Wow. Just wow.

On the other side of the fence, a million brainwashed and willing hostages of a fanatic deathcult come up with all new ways of suborning and perverting Western institutions to supply their war of attrition and attack their enemy for them.

It's Thanksgiving, but as surgery and medicine are being revolutionized, it's for a thankless and ungrateful bloodthirsty world.

Let the anti-Semites and would-be genocidal monsters of the world bleed.

They can lick their wounds with their filthy, lying tongues and bind them with rags torn from the perverted Jordanian flags they fly in "solidarity" with generations of killers and thieves.

Don't forget that it's Wipe Your Ass With The UN Flag day today.

Germany has banned Al-Manar:

Germany's Interior Ministry has banned Hizbullah's television station al-Manar, saying that it violates the country's constitution.

The ministry said al-Manar television programming was forbidden under Article 9 of Germany's constitution, which says that organizations cannot operate with the purpose of violating "international understanding."

A ministry spokesman did not offer further details. Al-Manar is staunchly anti-Israel and frequently broadcasts footage of Hizbullah fighters.

The US lists Hizbullah as a terrorist organization and has banned Al-Manar.

Al-Manar made no immediate comment.

Their parent company's PR Department is probably busy setting C4 charges by the German Embassy in Beirut as the "official response."

That's it for Big Auto's Bitch on Energy:

The 137-122 vote displaces the veteran Michigan Democrat, who has been either chairman or ranking member of the committee overseeing energy and environmental legislation since 1981. Dingell's southeast Michigan district is largely dependent on the automotive industry, and Dingell has made a point of opposing potentially costly regulations for automakers over the years.

It'll be interesting to see how Waxman will fuck this country up in all new and interesting ways.