the little things...

even wonder why the western world has such a fear of the middle east? (well, beside the apparent american vendetta...) the middle east has islamics... and islamics do things like this over simple "misunderstandings".

"Teacher in teddy case gets 15 days"
British woman in Sudan convicted of insulting Islam after students called toy 'Muhammad'

ok, so sudan is in africa, not the middle east but the gist of my point still stands...

this lady let the kids in the class she was teaching choose the name for a teddy bear. the students picked muhammad, a popular/common name among muslim men. there was speculation that a complaint was put to the government by a "school secretary with a grudge"...

after a full-on criminal trial, the teacher was found guilty of "insulting the faith of Muslims: and sentenced to 15 days in jail. due to the efforts of "delicate diplomatic efforts" by britain and a crack human rights lawyer, this teacher only got a comparative slap on the wrist. prosecutors were calling for a more somber charge - inciting religious hatred. the punishment for that is up to 40 lashes, 6 months in prison, and a hefty fine!

good sweet mike... these people take themselves far to seriously! i could understand if muhammad effigies were being burned or places of worship were being destroyed but this is ludicrous! no one would get in an uproar if someone named a teddy bear buddha or jesus, would they?

night of the living dead!!!

jenna jameson used to be hot, right? somethign about the number 1 rated porn star of all time? the stuff of dreams for men (and possibly women) of all ages?

unfortunatly, now it looks like she got bitten by a zombie and was turned into a member of the army of the undead... when she deflated her boobs, did they accidentally deflate the rest of her as well? believe me when i say there is nothing sexy about ths:

unless you have a thing for corpses... and that's just icky...

night of the living dolls!

don't these little gems look like they'd come alive one night and try to eat your face?

gack... is there nothing this ho won't do for publicity of late? being on dancing with the stars does not constitute a career revival. it merely proves that you were the most notable f-list celebrity that was available.

and about that! how in the hell did she make it to the finals anyway??? i'm not a regular watcher of the show but i did happen to catch one performance and she was atrocious! wah... boo hoo... my son's in rehab... my dad died... i'm putting so much into this i fainted... wah, wah... vote for me! america is so guilble...

ah youth...

ok, i don't really care about the story here... a picture is worh 1000 words.

here's a picture of lindsay lohan and her sister ali, both at age 13

if you think lindsay looks like a retired stripper who spent her off days baking her skin to leather these days, just think what her sister will look like when she turns... whatever age lindsay is now?!? me thinks zee mother is responsible for this... dina lohan is probably trying to make herself younger by sucking the youth/life out of her daughters.

rainbows and babies cause it too, didn't you know?

seems now a-days, absolutely EVERYTHING causes cancer... it's actually kind of funny (not like funny haha people are suffering and dying but more like ironically funny haha) when you think about it... like being punished for our technological advancements... teflon causes cancer, aluminum foil causes cancer, radiation causes cancer, UV rays cause cancer, plastic causes cancer (don't put in the microwave! doubly as bad - i hear microwaves cause cancer too!), asbestos causes cancer, velcro causes cancer... ok, so maybe not that last one... but like it or not, it seems our own technology is killing us! and now this:

"Working overnight shifts linked to cancer"

Scientists theorize 'graveyard' work disrupts body's natural rhythm, affecting production of melatonin

so this melatonin hormone can suppress tumour development and it's normally produced at night... i don't exactly get this... is it produced when it's dark out or when we sleep? or does it have to be both? i guess it has to be both or there wouldn't be a problem... i guess humans just weren't meant to be nocternal!

apparently, in the 1930s when "nighttime work was considered a hallmark of progress" the incidence of breast cancer increased sharply... and in more recent studies, it has been shown that work night shifts ARE more prone to preast cancer.

next month, overnight shift work is being added to the list of probable carcinogens... this has LARGE implications. in developed countries, approximately 20% of the working population work night shifts. now night shifts can be considered "hazardous work" and those night shifters are going to demand a "danger pay" salary increase. also, WSIB (workplace safety & insurance board) gives a worker the right to refuse any work that they feel is unsafe - for example, working with asbestos, another noted carcinogen. employers are going to have to provide training for working in hazardous conditions for all night shift employees! just imagine the money that will have to be spent on training and on pay raises... think of all the lost productivity from people refusing to work overnight...

let's just wait and see how this all plays out. i doubt it's going to be pretty...

darth leia

here's a new one for you...

a gay bar called BED in manila has dragged up some pop culture icons to do some advertising for them... they've switched up heads and bodies of darth vader & princess leia, superman & wonder woman, and harry potter and hermoine!! all to advertise the bar's weekly drag night!

family anatomy

warning: for all non-fans of grey's anatomy, i'm going to rant a little bit here...

so meredith's sister lexie... i like her better than meredith (lets face it, meredith just has too many problems, whines, and is not nearly as hot as the people on the show are forced to believe she is...) but she's still SOO annoying. her character reeks of the desperation of the writers trying to keep this show going. her character is all over the map! you could probably break her down into several sub-characters... in other news, i know isaiah washington hates the gays but i miss preston burke! christina (my favourite character) just isn't the same without him... izzie & george - just get it over with! it's not going to happen.

alright, all that's done but it's not where i was going with this...
meredith's sister lexie - the actress who plays her, chyler leigh (what kind of a name is chyler???), did a movie back when she was 15 and starred alongside her real-life brother! the movie was kickboxing academy and apparently it was awful... there's more... wait for it... the brother-sister duo played each other's love interest!!! they even kiss! EWWW...

what? were you expecting something more exciting? nope that's it... just a little bit of incest...

olympic mascots revealed

this week, the new mascots for the 2010 olympic and paralympic winter games in vancouver were introduced to the public... while they are very cute, i do have some objections...

if you haven't already met them, say hello to sumi (an animal guardian spirit), quatchi (a sasquatch), and miga (a sea-bear)...

also say hello to stereotype city! according to the vancouver organizing committee (VANOC), these mascots "needed to represent the people, geography, and spirit of British Columbia and Canada." congrats, you did a bang up job... apparently the people of b.c. and canada are all native people that live in snow-covered forests.

for too long, canada has been portrayed as a snow-covered country populated by natives americans and the french... luckily, since the 2010 games are across the country from quebec, we are spared a frenchie. these mascots draw from native influences. i know native culture is a large part of canada's/b.c.'s history but there is SOOO much more to canada AND b.c. than that! why not branch out a little bit? multi-cultural mascots anyone?

but then again, i did some checking and apparently, mascots are traditionally highly stereotypical... amik the beaver for the '76 montreal games; sam the patriotic eagle for the '84 los angeles games; syd the platypus, olly the kookaburra, and mille the echidna for the 2000 sydney games; greek gods athena & phevos for the 2004 greece games; jingjing the panda for the 2008 beijing games... but most of these places har highly amorphous culturally or pratriotically... in canada we're known as a mosaic - we're all different and from all over! how can you pick just one theme to unite us all?and i understand that these are the winter games but does that really mean all the mascots have to be associated with the snow and the cold? favourite sports include hockey, snowboarding, and alpine skiing... favourite food: hot chocolate... favourite colour: chill blue...
damn, you know those days when it's so cold your sled dogs won't leave the igloo and even your snowmobile won't start? those are just killer... if you don't know what i'm talking about ask your second cousin jim who lives in canada... i probably know him!
you know, we DO occassionally get summer up here in the great white north!

so these cute little creatures are supposed to "appeal to children all over the world"... good thing you made such good mascots for the baby einstein olympic games! it's not just about hooking the kids... a majority of people interested in the olympics are adults. advertising PBS special style isn't going to appeal to your adult audience...

and no wonder it costs SOO much to go see the olympics!!! in order to come up with these cute litle dudes, VANOC had to narrow the field down from 177 designers! then they brought the top 5 to vancouver to see presentations. once the concept/designer was decided upon, there was a lengthy period of "conceptual development, top secret research and focus testing" as well as high security review/approval meetings. top secret research?!? are these critters a-bombs in disguise? is canada using the vancouver olympics to restart the cold war? are they UFOs that landed in prince rupert and are now being cleverly disguised in plain sight? did they shoot JFK? who knows... all i know is that it sounds expensive!

something to think about...

hmmm... very interesting... i've never really thought about this before but it's a very good point.

introducing The New View Campaign

this little group was created in 2000 to "challenge the distorted and oversimplified messages about sexuality that that pharmaceutical industry relies on to sell its new drugs."

wouldn't it be so easy is sexual problems had just simple medical solutions? apparently, that's what the pharmaceutical industry wants you to believe... these guys are trying to tell you it's a tad more complicated than that. problems in the bedroom can't all be fixed by a little (blue) pill!

it's actually really interesting and i highly suggest you check it out... for more on the story, check out thestar.com's article on "Sexual performance anxiety"

ha HA!

ridiculousness reversed!

"Licence plate case to be reviewed"
Stung by uproar, province is reconsidering decision to deny retired church minister her vanity plate

so... i was not the only one up in arms about this story from yesterday...
the government, faced with public and political upset, has tucked its tail between its legs and run off! transportation minister jim bradley is now asking the "personalized licence plate review committee" to reconsider its ruling.
conservative transportation critis john o'toole (how fitting - a conservative that's a tool[e]) got it right when he said that this incident is "taking bureaucratic nit-picking to the extreme."

however, while i don't support the revoking of the plates, i DO think it's a bad idea for the government to do a complete 180 whenever the public gets in a stir. if you can get a decision reversed just by making a fuss, how can any government decision ever mean anything? it's equivalent to bad parenting... you tell your kid "no more candy!" but then the kid starts to cry and you cave and give them the candy saying "just this once..." but it's never just once... kids (and by association the pubilc) aren't as dumb as you think they are - now they've learned a valuable trick to getting their way each and every time...

mental... energy... expended...

i really want to share this story and my thoughts on it but my brain is out of go-juice... so we'll just have to settle for me merely sharing the story with you!

"Taking the Axe to Unilever's hypocrisy"

the gist of the story is that unilever is the company behind both the axe body spray line of products and dove products... dove's all on about their "campaign for real beauty" while axe is promoting the use our product and hot women will have sex with you! angle...

some people think it's a little hypocritical of unilever to be both trying to empower women (dove) and degrade them (axe)...
"Should you be unaware, the women who push Axe body wash and body spray and other Axe body products are sleek and buxom and tiny waisted and fond of such extracurricular pursuits as pole grinding. The very sort of image that Dove decries."

i never liked the axe ads... while they might be funny and, according to vice-president of unilever canada, we're supposed to view them as "poking fun" and "a spoof on the mating game"... it's just not true... young girls look at these commercials and think ok, so those guys think girls like that are really HOT... if i want to be hot, i should look and act like that! intended spoof or not, it's going to influence people.

foretelling doom...

the countdown begins...

click here to find out what evil is lurking around the corner!

yet more ridiculousness!

"Grenada considering ban on gay cruises. reports say"
Prejudice noted before, says rights group head

"As a government, our policy is that we do not support it (homosexuality). [...] This is my question: What does the Grenadian community want of us?" ~ Tourism Minister Clarice Modeste-Curwen

first off (let's just ignore the prejudice for one itty bitty second), do you really think it's a good idea for the ministry of tourism to turn away people who want to spend money in your country?!? yeah, yeah... i know what will be good for tourism - we'll decrease the number of tourists! sounds like the best plan ever!

so for now, you only have to worry if you're on an all-gay cruise (what about cruise staff? are they banned too? or maybe they just don't let the ships come into port at all...) but is the future going to have us declaring not only or citizenship but also our sexuality on our passports? so that homophobic countries can disallow entry to anyone that might be a threat to national security and their narrow-minded version national morality? doesn't that thought make you a little queasy?

ridiculous!

"LUV UR PL8? 2BAD4U, cleric told"
Her personalized plate yanked over road racing and religious concerns

what? WHAT?!? (seems i've been starting a lot of posts that way lately... showing just how incredulous that is the world we live in...)

it seems we've gotten a lot more politically correct in the last 20 odd years... this united church minister got her plate that read REV JO as a 50th birthday present 19 years ago and when she went to get her old rusty ones replaced this year, the "Personalized Licence Plate Review Committee" (didn't even know we had that! no wonder there is no money for daycare, education, health, and food banks...) gave her the thumbs down.

their reasons?
a) the plates "could be perceived to denote speeding or racing"
yeah, all us brain-dead motorists out there are going to follow this exact series of thoughts: REV JO -- rev? -- engines rev -- my car has an engine -- i can make my engine rev!! -- that licence plate must want me to go faster -- i better speed! yup, we're just that stupid.
b) the plates might be viewed as promoting one faith over another... what? just because plates are issued saying REV or REVRND doesn't mean plates haven't been issued that said IMAM or RABBI. the only issue would be if REV and REVRND were issued but the others were not permitted; otherwise, this reason has nothing behind it.

but this craft cleric says: "I think I'm going to keep my old battered plates and wear them as a proud symbol of the government's stupidity." good for her!!!

you want me to what?

i found a collection of old ads (be they real or made-up) for stuff like razors, cigerettes, and the like and the follwoing was one of them...

this is the weirdest f'ing thing i've ever read!

first off, it's well documented that i am a child so it took me a good 10 minutes to get over the repeated use of the word douching.

second, EEEWWWWWW!!!

thrid, guys will stick it in anything...

fourth, EEEEEEWWWWWWWWW!!!

fifth, how does being pine-fresh down there make you more desirable?

sixth, again, EWW!!!