The real State of the Union

I found this link purporting to be a remix of this year’s State of the Union address (much like one from last year), but given the content of the snippets used, I think that it’s just another take on last year’s speech. It’s still bizarre and often laugh-out-loud funny, though.

(via ironmaus)

Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney, members of Congress, distinguished citizens, fellow citizens. Every year, by law and by custom, we meet here to threaten the world.

[Applause]

The American flag stands for corporate scandals, recession, stock market declines, blackmail, terror, burning with hot irons, dripping acid on the skin, mutilation with electric drills, cutting out tongues, and rape.

[Applause]

Our first goal is to show utter contempt for the environment. I have sent you a comprehensive energy plan to devastate communities, kill wildlife, and burn away millions of acres of treasured forests.

[Applause]

This government is taking unprecedented measures to protect our people, and defend our homeland. We’ve begun inoculating troops and first responders against ballistic airports. And this year, for the first time, we must offer every child in America three nuclear missiles.

[Applause]

To date we have arrested or otherwise dealt with four hundred billion key commanders of Al Qaida, which is enlisting tens of thousands of new volunteers across America. They include a man who directed logistics and funding for the CIA, one of them is found at the Department of Defense. One by one, the terrorists are learning we’re building a culture to encourage international terrorism.

[Applause]

Almost three months ago, the United Nations Security Council gave Saddam Hussein his final chance to disarm. The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein has recently had an advanced nuclear program chemical in his arse, even while inspectors were in his country. Our intelligence sources tell us that he as attempted to purchase seven million hydrogen powered doctors, and the western wall of the Pentagon. The United States will ask the UN Security Council to convene on February the fifth, to consider the facts of Iraq’s ongoing defiance of the world. Secretary of State Powell will plant information to incite fear about Iraq’s links to terrorist groups.

[Applause]

And tonight I have a message for the people of Iraq. Go home and die.

[Applause]

Trusting in the sanity and restraint of the United States is not a strategy, and it is not an option.

[Applause]

iTunes: “Sympathy for the Devil (Fatboy Slim)” by Rolling Stones, The from the album Sympathy for the Devil (2003, 8:25).

Search inside!

Search Inside Lolita?

Wow — I entirely missed Zeldman’s original post about this, but Kirsten just pointed out a hilarious little side effect of Amazon’s addition of “Search Inside!” or “Look Inside!” text to book cover images featuring their full text search feature.

As if the term ‘Lolita’ didn’t attract enough pervs already, now we have little things like this to feed the obsession.

More amusing instances of this can be found on Kirsten’s post, or at Another Pointless Dotcom.

iTunes: “Fun With Drugs” by Velvet Acid Christ from the album Fun With Knives (1999, 5:25).

Dialogue while watching a movie

“You want a cookie?”

“Mmm…naaah.”

“Okies.”

(munch)

(munch)

Said with mouth full: “You sure you don’t want any cookie? I’ve got a tasty little bite here, you wouldn’t even have to chew it!”

“Okay — you stay on that side of the bed.”

iTunes: “Pudding Time” by Primus from the album Frizzle Fry (1990, 4:08).

Let’s kill him

This has been amusing me all morning — ever since I read it, it’ll pop back into my head and I’ll start laughing again.

At the MoveOn.org awards presentation [for Bush in 30 Seconds], Al Franken made the sign-language interpreter crack up by saying solemnly, “I heard Al Franken make fun of deaf people backstage. Let’s kill him.”

That, my friends, is good comedy.

(via Lane)

iTunes: “Pandora’s Aquarium” by Amos, Tori from the album From the Choirgirl Hotel (1998, 4:45).

‘cuddling’

I’ve been reading Something Positive for a while now, since Royce showed it to me, but yesterday’s strip has two of the best quotes I’ve seen from it yet.

If masturbating was supposed to be cute, pink bunnies would do it in meadows and they’d ejaculate rainbows and flower petals.

I’m an artist and mindfucks are my medium.

iTunes: “Pride (In the Name of Love)” by U2 from the album Rattle and Hum (1988, 4:27).

Why I’ve missed IRC

Pertinent parts of a #joiito conversation just after I walked in…

Tantek: Clinton did pay down the debt with budget surplus.
rojisan: of course he did. during the clinton administration, blowjobs were FREE
michaelh: sounds good to me
michaelh: get that boy back in office
Tantek: term limits
michaelh: details, Tantek — if he can debate the meaning of “is”, I’m sure he can debate “term limits” ;)
adamhill: or surplus or blow job ;)
michaelh: he’s a master debater, he is
adamhill: <rimshot/ >
adamhill: michaelh, he’ll be here all week, try the prime rib
michaelh: don’t forget to tip the waitresses
michaelh pushes a waitress over
rojisan: try the waitresses? tip the prime rib?
rojisan: sorry. clinton flashback

iTunes: “Get Down, Make Love” by Nine Inch Nails from the album Sin (1990, 4:19).

Who’s the pervert? ;)

Last August, one of Anil‘s “Daily Links” was to a story about the Olsen Twins somewhat risqué Rolling Stone photo shoot. When he linked to it, the tooltip he put on the link was, “298 days, you pervert”.

Today, he linked to a story about the Olsen Twins going to NYU. The tooltip he used this time was, “the answer is 152 days, you pervert”.

If it weren’t for Anil so kindly keeping track of things like this, I’d never know just when the twins were due to turn 18.

I’m not sayin’.

I’m just sayin’.

iTunes: “Happiness (Dub)” by Front 242 from the album Mut\@ge.Mix\@ge (1995, 6:10).

Apple Computers? Pshaw…try Potato Processing!

This has got to be one of the most inventive (and stupid) ways I’ve heard of yet to try to score some free computer parts:

German police are investigating after an angry man returned a computer he had just bought saying it was packed with small potatoes instead of computer parts.

The store replaced the computer free of charge but became suspicious when he returned a short time later with another potato-filled computer casing, police in the western city of Kaiserslautern said on Monday.

“The second time he said he didn’t need a computer any more and asked for his money back in cash,” a police spokesman said.

Police are now investigating the man for fraud.

(via Neil Gaiman)

iTunes: “Voodoo People” by Prodigy, The from the album Hackers (1994, 4:08).