News Bits 14 July - 18 July
Pittsburgh News:
- Pens sign 3 forwards
- Pens 08-09 Schedule Out
- Bums lose 5-3
- Tuition at state schools goes up, I begin cursing
under my breathloudly and robustly - Steelers sign 6th round pick Mike Humpal. Humpal. </urge to make juvenile joke>
- Training camp in 11 days!!1!1!11one!
- Who’s buying the Steelers? We still don’t know.
US News:
- GeeDubYaaaa [8:15 pm]: ur not doin’ ur job
reppinDAHOUSE [8:17 pm]: lol u fail
- Munchausen’s by Proxy poster-child tries to KILL HER BABY WITH A SALT OVERDOSE
- FDA still has no clue about tainted tomatoes recalls warning anyway. Anyone wanna THROW tomatoes at them?
- 4116 Americans Dead because our president felt like playing real-life army men. Someone get him some plastic ones, fer f@#$’s sake!!!
- US Census won’t count Same-Sex Marriages. Reason: It would rile up GeeDubya after his mom’s managed to calm him down for his afternoon nap.
- Al Gore: Still warning us about the environment, still best known for being a head in a jar.
World News
SpacePope warns about the environment
- China Not Allowing Entertainers that say anything bad about it in the country </overplayed news>
- Nelson Mandela turns 90, recently removed from US Terror List
- Indian Politician Making Her Way Up
Entertainment Spazzing
- BATMAN! Duh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh-BATMAN, BATMAN~! BAAAT-MAAAAAN!♪
- HEROES SEASON 3 TRAILERRRRRR!!!!
NAO WIF MOAAARRR VILLAINS!!!
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News Bits 
18 July 2008, 02:28
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Ahh, George Bush. I know that in Canada, we’re all sort of having our lulz at how long those almost-elections took with Clinton and Obama-llama, but are extremely glad Bush is getting out. Just about everyone I know has something nasty to say about Bush. He’s not very well-liked up here. Even less well-liked than Stephen Harper. Ho’shit.
Even less well-liked than Jack Layton’s moustache. HO’SHIT.
AND HEROES. EEE. EXCITING. MILO VENTIMIGLIA LOOKS YUMMY. -touches-
And Claire + gun = wet dreams for forever. Acting is so-so. BUT STILL. OMNOMNOM.
And China. Ahh, China. Their emissions are wayyy over the recommended amount by two different health administrations, last I heard.
Although I find it semi-amusing how despite China’s best efforts to clamp down on people speaking up, everyone is talking about China, freeing Tibet, etc. (Go Tibet! -waves flag- )
@Tammi
Yeah, I’m still wondering who the 25% or so in the US that still approve of him are. Zoo animals and the cabinet?
Comedy Central got it right with the “Clusterf$%^
to the White House” bit last year on the Daily Show.
YAS. Milo does look cool. Also, I wonder if he and Hayden are still dating-not that I really care what stars do, just now that I think about it…
Yeah, China will never be able to cut back emissions in time for the games. Honestly, there are just too many cars right now, cutting back for a month won’t help much.
Yeah. The problem is, China doesn’t realize, when you try to shut us Westerners up, we just yap louder about the fact that they’re trying to shut us up. I guess they never get, “Hey, I’m a US/Canadian/UK (or any other country that provides for freedom of speech) citizen, I get freedom of speech” remarks in China, huh? *waves “Free Tibet” sign*
Obama-llam is supposed to be Obama-llama, by the way. I saw an Obama version of the llama song. Man, people are going nuts over him. @__@;
And there’s actually 25% out there that like Bush? That’s… surprising.
Though, I suppose after having Bush, they would get excited. Of course, you wouldn’t have to try too hard to beat Bush. I do recall reading about the Julio-Claudian dynasty of Rome, in which the people loved Caligula simply because he wasn’t Tiberius. It also helped that he threw money around and won their hearts with food and sacrifices. Of course, he was murdered after being Emperor for four years, sooo…
And I just found out that Ventimiglia and Panettiere were dating, like, yesterday. He’s 31, she’s… 18? That’s just barely legal!
As for China, you’re completely right. Remember the Dixie Chicks controversy? I think a song got banned after they spoke out and… everything was clawing to listen to them. Once you tell people you can’t do something, they just want to do it more!
Though… the Olympics will certainly be entertaining. It’s a certainty that SOMETHING is going to go down. They can’t control everything, especially if a bunch of people from nations with freedom of speech go there to see the games. I think the politics of the games will be just as much fun to watch as the games themselves. XD
@Tammi
Yeah, I know. I should go and edit it huh… Well, he is on the cover of Rolling Stone. He’s as some talking head or other put it, “the first rock star presidential candidate”. There’s only one problem with being favored by young people: you can win the hearts of the young, but can you make us get off our butts, put down our PS2s and vote? XDDD
Something like that. Lemme see if I can find the actual numbers. Here ya go: Bush Approval Ratings. His approval rating has hovered somewhere between 25 and 30 percent approval for quite a while.
Really? People loved Caligula, just because he was LESS evil than the last guy? We never had to learn much about Rome in US schools. Or maybe I just did a good job of thinking more about Intarnats than school. *shrug*
What’s worse is that in the show he’s her uncle. Also, he’s old enough to be her Daddy (technically). Not that people with wide age differences can’t actually fall in love, but…I’m still allowed to be weirded out by it, right?
Well, actually, as I remember the Dixie Chicks thing, everyone around here (Pittsburgh-area is like the armpit of the nation, I swear…) is still mad at them, even though we all hate Bush now. Then again, there are a lot more country-station-listenin’ conservatives next door to me than I usually realize.
Eh, I just watch the Olympics when there’s absolutely nothing else on… Though, I really can’t help but wonder if China will still have that lovely SICKLY GREEN SEA for the boat races and stuff.
Wow, I don’t want to hop on the ‘making-fun-of-Fox’ bandwagon, but… FOX/Opinion Dynamics gives him +36% for 10/24-25/06. XD
And maaan, getting us youngsters to do things is… hard. I mean, I know a lot of people who keep up with politics and we talk about it, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to do anything about it.
As for Caligula, that was the gist. I mean, ANYONE could look good after Tiberius, so Caligula didn’t have to try too hard. First of all, everyone loved him. When he was a kid, he was everywhere, wearing the army-standard shoes (”caligae” which was his namesake. He wore them when he was ~9 and got the name “Caligula,” which meant little boots XD) and hanging out with his dad, Germanicus. And Germanicus was Rome’s hero. Good guy from what I gather.
So throughout his life, people were telling him how awsm he was and whatnot. So he grew up expecting it, turned into a brat, became Emperor. At first he threw money around to make the Romans happy, but after a while, he started throwing around TOO much money. After about two years in power, people got angry (again), but with good reason. Let’s see… he tried to build a floating castle (a bunch of boats connected, pretty much), made his horse a Senator, uhmm. I can’t remember if it was him or Nero who turned the Senator’s wives into whores to pay for his extravagance… I think that was Caligula… xD
He pretended to be a god, dressed up as one, etc. I think he put on performances and acted, but was a bittt of a creeper.
So after a while, people were angry, the Praetorian Guard runs around, kills everyone, finds Claudius hiding behind a curtain, and decides not to kill him! (Probably because he bribed them ;o And other reasons, jaa).
And I second the thought of being weirded out by a 31 and 18 year-old having a relationship. Odd. Though, he would have had to have had sex when he was 12 1/2 to have her, soo… @__@;
As for the Dixie Chicks, I just remember that they made fun of Bush, and everyone I knew was like -high five, Dixie Chicks!- My friends here thought it was all rather hilarious and awesome. XD
And Conservatives. D: I dunno. I suppose I’m leaning toward being liberal-minded, since I fully support health care, funding education, all that good stuff. I also believe in a lot of social programs that the Conservative Government is hiding from due to how much it’d be to start it. But honestly, isn’t the well fare of your country the top priority?
Though… Canada’s pretty doomed as far as I can see it. ): No one wants Stephen Harper again, since Canada + Conservative government = bad. Canada isn’t Conservative. It just isn’t. We like our health care. We like our recycling programs. And we hate cutbacks. We would rather pay more taxes and get stuff out of it than see the Conservatives cut back on taxes simply because they said they would. (And I mean, they only got in in the first place because of all the scandals from the Liberals!)
Arghrghgh. And Stephen Harper is trying to get rid of gay marriage. D:
Wow, part of my message got cut off due to length.
If you’re curious what the rest of it said, I went on to complain how Canada has no cool leaders (whereas US has 3! THREE! We don’t even get one. D: ) and that Obama should send us his babies. >__>;
@Tammi
It’s not so much a bandwagon as a room for supporting scientific facts. XD “Fox news is a joke” goes side by side with “The Earth orbits the Sun”.
Well, I’ll vote. No matter HOW lazy I am, or how many papers I have due the next day. Because it’s a PRESIDENTIAL election. You either vote, or get full bitching rights if the winner should suck. Personally, I’d find it more interesting to have to explain why you voted for them if they do suck, “Well, see I thought Kang would make a great president when he pledged not to enslave the human race…But you know politicians…” </Simpsons reference>
…wow. History of Caligula in 3 paragraphs. I swear, I learn more from the Internet than school EVER taught me. Then again, American public school system = LULZZZZZ Though, I had heard of the making his horse a Senator thing. But that wasn’t actually taught in class, I learned that from a school planner. XDDD
Yeah, but it IS theoretically possible. Theoretically.
See, Canada is a place where you don’t expect to find rednecks. Hippies, maybe. Rednecks, not really. Where I live? Rednecks are a large percentage of the population. Hippies are shunned and told to cut their hair. </stupid>
LMAO!!!! This is the United States you’re talking about. The top priorities for US lawmakers are record profits and record tax breaks for Wal*Mart, not the welfare of the citizens. XDDDDDDDDD Oh, god, that’s funny.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAaAAAAAAAaaa~
…*wipes tear away* Ohhh, my sides hurttttt… </cackling> Oh, man, that was rich.
Yeah, I wiki’d yer Prime Minister thar. He seems like a real asshat. But can you find any pictures of monkeys being smarter than him? If not, I think we’ll have to reserve the dumbassery award for George II. But Harper can still have the Asshattery award. What it is is a bronzed hat that you can wear on your ass with a little adjustment (a foot)…
Maybe mine will too…Hmm.
Actually, the US has its Emperors, too, y’know. Emperor Nixon, Emperor George I, and Emperor George II. So it’s not all cool over here. Though, I have to admit, we’re a little crazy over having “cool” people be in office -> Schwarzenegger in Calif.