Fitna is a short movie (about 17 minutes) from the Netherlands that juxtaposes violent verses from the Koran with images of violent actions taken by Muslims, some quite graphic.

Were Islam a decent religion, they'd make their own short propaganda film showing all the good and charitable work that Muslims do, juxtaposed with uplifting verses from the Koran.

They have not done so.

What they HAVE done is threaten death to the good folks at LiveLeak for hosting the film, ironically proving Fitna's point.

However, "the Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it".

The movie can still be found here.

UPDATE: Google Video has it, too.

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Proof positive that Global Warming is a dangerous cult that preys on the weak-minded:

My family and I are joining in. Whether or not it has any affect on global warming. I am just in love with the idea that millions of people around the world are joining together to do some thing positive for our home, planet earth. It sure beats killing each other in a war.

What else will this person do just because millions of other people do it?

I don't know, but I'm locking the door and loading my Glock, just in case they decide to do it near me.

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Looks like one of my Newsish Fakery posts at IMAO got picked up by Google News by mistake:

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Notice how beautifully my headline (at the bottom) contrasts with the one directly above it.

I.
Am.
Amused.

[Hat tip to fellow IMAO-ite Frank J. for bringing this to my attention.]

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Funny how you get from here to there sometimes.

Blogless Brother Tom was over visiting, and - being the computer geeks we both are - random chatter was accompanied by random web surfing. That's our equivalent to having a radio on in the background. Well, our radio-equivalent was YouTube, which just happened to feature the words:

"Ooh Girl!" - An Honest R&B Song

over this highly amusing video (which is not appropriate for innocent youth, who probably wouldn't get it anyway):

Checking out related videos by the same artists made me realize that Runawaybox is the future of YouTube sketch comedy. Bookmark them.

Still this realization came with a price.

You see, one of their videos is "The Marty Show - 2 Girls 1 Cup", which is a video of this guy watching a popular internet video that I'd never heard of called "2 Girls 1 Cup". And as soon as Marty started watching, I paused the Marty Show & told Tom words to the effect of "We need to watch this video so we get the joke."

It didn't take much Googling to find the basic description - some weird Brazilian fetishist made a video featuring two lesbians thoroughly enjoying a cup of poo, followed by cheerful exchanges of vomit.

I thought it odd that I'd never heard of this video, because there's apparently a strong cottage industry at YouTube of filming people's reactions to viewing this video.

Naturally we set about to see this festival of wrong for ourselves.

Turned out to be quite a challenge to find.

Most of the popular Google links were to what I'll refer to as "sucker pages", where they talk about the video just so that you'll visit their sites and click their ads. Any video links tend to be mere reaction videos, and completely unhelpful to our quest.

I did, however, find a couple useful links:

CAUTION: Before clicking these links, please understand that you will be viewing girls eating poo and vomit. Which doesn't sound bad when you say it like that, but the reality is... well, let me put it this way - the three most callous, jaded men I know (Graumagus, Contagion, and That 1 Guy), would react to this video by wincing and saying "Damn... that's fucked up". If you know these men, then you know what it would take for them to pass such a judgment. Normal human beings will react with horror, disgust, and possibly regurgitation. Normal human beings should not watch this video. If you DO decide to watch this, do so with the knowledge that you can't UNwatch it, and it WILL leave scars.

The one at this forum features the video, but you have to scroll down to see it. The bad news is that it starts automatically, so scroll down fast so you don't miss any pooey goodness.

Over here are some links where you can download the video in FLV format. FLV players can be found via CNET.

Now the reason I'm posting this isn't so that you'll watch the video, or any of the reaction videos (except maybe the Kermit the Frog one), but rather because nothing pisses me off more than having to wade through a bunch of deceptive Google-whoring liars with fake links and duplicitous content to find what I'm looking for. Hopefully this post will keep someone else from having the same problem.

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If you leave a package of Oreo cookies sitting out, they will get stale and soft.

If you leave a slice of bread sitting out, it will get stale and hard.

Why?

I would think that both of these baked goods would end up with moisture contents related to the household's internal humidity, and thus end up with similar degrees of pliability.

Scientists and/or bakers, please explain.

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Unless someone can point toward some fancy plugin that'll keep me from drowning in spam comments, I swear I'm moving back to Blogger.

Tangentially, do people with Haloscan comments get a lot of spam? Maybe I could just install those into my template & shut down these beshitted native MuNu ones.

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While rooting around for my post about my Idea Lemur, I found a link to a post wherein I dissed the notion of Steven Den Beste quitting blogging.

I forgot to post an "I told you so" entry last May, so I'm doing it now.

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"Horton Hears A Who" was done once, and done right, by the brilliant Chuck Jones back in 1970.

At 26 minutes, it was somewhat padded.

Now it's been extended to 88 minutes so that Jim Carrey & Steve Carell can cash paychecks.

I'm skipping this one. Why would I want to watch these idiots mug and riff for 62 minutes while ruining an otherwise charming children's story?

Dork Tower sums it up nicely.

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1 I plan to miss this one too - I am glad my girls are older... That makes it easier...

Posted by: Richmond at March 12, 2008 07:16 AM (PT6hV)

2 I think my husband wants to see it. wasn't it enough that they screwed up the cat in the hat?

Posted by: wRitErsbLock at March 12, 2008 07:55 AM (+MvHD)

3 c'mon gramps, don't be so grouchy. theo geisel would love the nuance bastardizations, don't you think? that man had to do hard drugs. i have to see it. seuss in my soul, you know? i'm a north going zax, my man, can't help myself. i'll tell you if it sux tho.

Posted by: .supergurl at March 12, 2008 06:31 PM (cWKxt)

4 Horton hears a Harvey... Movie canceled.

Posted by: RedNeck at March 13, 2008 06:31 PM (zVAJL)

5 For what it's worth, Entertainment Weekly magazine gave it a good review. I think just the fact that it's CG and not live-action makes it better than Cat or the Grinch. BTW, I think one of these spam comments is a Beatles lyric. Hm...

Posted by: Roses at March 15, 2008 08:50 PM (KAu3P)

6 Dude The big guy checking IDs isn't working, you may want to consider turning off the comments, Or see If you can't block the entire domain these ass monkeys are working out of. Of course I maybe talked Into sitting at the door with my shotgun If your nice to me

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... is Maggie Thatcher wearing a pimp hat?

And don't argue with me. That's TOTALLY a pimp hat.

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Saw this headline:

The World Of Real Party Animals: The Internet Gatecrashers Who Drug Dogs, Have Group Sex And Trash Homes

and thought "Holy crap! They found one of my comment parties!"

Turns out that it was actually a bratty teen in Sussex.

Kids, please take this blog's tagline seriously - "A celebration of things kids shouldn't try at home".

Emphasis on the shouldn't.

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Stuff I've been meaning to blog about, but haven't had the time, so I'm coughing up a pile of links:

Google search tricks.[Hat tip: Bug]

Saw this, thought of Tammi.

The Wisconsin Law Enforcement Firearms Training Manual. It's what I spent 36 hours learning over 2 weekends.

This is how I spent the month of February.

Proof that a song doesn't need to make sense to be popular. Not that Beatles fans need any proof of that *cough*A Day In The Life*cough.
Step one - lyrics
Step two - music
Step three - video

Screw Fischer-Price. You've already got the toy your baby REALLY wants to play with. Probably sitting in a closet gathering dust.

Blogger lets you schedule posts now? Hell, I may have to dump MuNu (yes, I know MuNu has that feature after Pixy sets it up, but he's not taking my calls on the topic).

Yeah, I'd be the guy in the crosswalk on this one.

Either you've felt this way or you haven't. Hopefully you haven't.

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Not only are Hanson still together, they're coming to Milwaukee, so I'm hearing commercials for their concert on the radio.

That's not the horrible thought, though.

Consider Hanson's hit MMMBop.

Here's the chorus:

MMMbop tick a ta ba do ba
dubi da ba do ba
tick a ta ba doo
yeah eh yeah

Here's the horrible thought:

That's what they recorded.

At some point, there was a first draft, and it was so mind-bogglingly horrible that it was rejected in favor of the wretched demon-flatulence listed above because - by comparison - said sickly ear-barf actually sounded GOOD.

Just pray that no copy of that first draft ever falls into the wrong hands, or we're all doomed.

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