Which of our fine festooned friends here will advance to the non-elite 8? First, the ones who came before:
And now, below the fold, I give you Soup Sandwich v. Heavy Drop, Snake Eyes v. Captain Stubing’s Evil Twin, Chippendale v. Jelly Roll Patrol, and The Anonymous Awesomest SEAL v The Real Liam Neeson!
I hope she’s colorblind as well, or she’s gonna be pissed that her parents and the corporation for public broadcasting made her look like a blotter test on mushrooms….
Sesame Street has a new muppet who is hungry for more than just cookies.
The iconic kids show is set to unveil a new impoverished puppet named Lily, whose family faces an ongoing struggle with hunger issues…“Food insecurity is a growing and difficult issue for adults to discuss, much less children,” said the Paisleys in a statement. “We are honored that Sesame Street, with its long history of tackling difficult issues with sensitivity, caring and warmth asked us to be a part of this important project.”
And, lest you not take this seriously….
The special will share the stories of real-life families to raise awareness of hunger issues in the United States, as well as strategies that have helped these families find food. The United States Department of Agriculture estimates that 17 million American children — nearly 1 in 4 — have limited or uncertain access to affordable and nutritious food. Walmart is sponsoring the show as part of a $1.5 million grant toward the initiative and holding screenings in select communities.
You know, I’d like to be nice, and say that I applaud Sesame Street for this and blah, blah, blah blah. But, I won’t, because I would be being dishonest.
Until you’ve seen kids in the shitholes I have been to, you’ll have a hard time convincing me to take “food insecurity” in the US too seriously. There are simply too many avenues out there for parents who don’t have money. And all of them should be utilized. But all too often I see asshole parents who are buying their Gov’t cheese and a pack of cigarettes and a 6-pack of beer. I’m not going to be made to feel bad because other parents make shitty personal choices. Frankly, it just annoys the hell out of me.
And I love that DoA is the one that does this story. Not like they have any vested interest in cooking the books on those stats do they? Look, I am all for well-fed children, but take a look at the damn DoA budget and tell me there isn’t enough funds already in there to take care of kids.
You want a safety net for these kids? How about churches, which offer this all the time. My church gives HUGE amounts of money to trying to get kids these lunches. I pay my taxes which go to this etc. Do I really need a TV show paid for with my tax money, augmented by a huge corporation that will make money on food sales, working together to make me feel bad for kids I don’t have?
Somehow this whole thing pisses me off almost as much as the idiots who will be marching single-file through Indy this weekend. Maybe I will go down there and hand out apples and carrot sticks to make sure everyone is fully nourished.
UPDATE: The Secretary of Agriculture emailed me a nasty note about my post, and said he spent 15 million looking at what will happen to this poor Muppet inside the year, and this is what he came up with:
WE are not Left.
WE are not Right.
WE are the 99%.
and WE will prevail.We will come together as one on Saturday October 8th at 12 noon on Veterans Memorial Plaza in downtown Indy for a General Assembly of the people of Indianapolis.
Yeah, whatever. This whole thing is on a level of retardation not seen since…..well, this
Anywho, I noticed at Ace yesterday that Drew had put up the braintrusts’ demands. Or maybe it was this one asshat. Either way, since they have no leaders, I’m assuming this joker represents the collective will of these potheads. So, let’s look at their demands….
Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending “Freetrade” by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.
Yeah, their big plan is Tariffs. The logic of having open borders and tariffs is as nonsensical as it comes, but what do you expect. OK, so now your McDonald’s drive thru is run by some idiot making $20 an hour. How much will your burger now cost? Mind you the 1% don’t usually go to McD’s, they go somewhere that folks already make $20. And those cheap products….yeah, they go to people like me with no fuggin money. Demand 1: Rosie O’Donnell level retardation.
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Well, it’s not like she had a job to go to or anything.
…and then he took my lunch money.
Bush Derangement Syndrome on steroids.
Smelly commie hippie hipster douchebags are what America is all about.
I guess we shouldn’t tell them prohibition was a progressive movement, huh.
From their utterly piss poor website, I give you this bit of genius…
We are deploying a new tactic for the Occupation of Indianapolis. Its novel, its LEGAL and its very disruptive all at once if we do it right. The Human People Mover is a concept in which a line of volunteers will target a building or group of buildings in which the 1% operate their businesses which have caused the current damage to our society.
Several things….why do you people not use apostropies? Seriously, is it so hard to write “It’s novel, it’s LEGAL and it’s very disruptive all at once if we do it right.” Those are contractions bitches, just add that extra step in and watch the %1 quake at your grammatical genius. (Not to be confused with Martin and Bill Gramatica.)
Second of all, your (not yore, you’re, yor, ur etc.) idea is dumb. But, let’s (notice the apostrophy, which denotes “let us”) look at what else you have…
A single file line of as many people as possible will begin walking around the targeted building or buildings on the public sidewalks in as close proximity as possible to each other to form a moving barricade of constantly walking people. As long as we remain moving on the sidewalks we cannot be arrested. Remain standing in a group of 5 or more and they can take us to jail, but if we are each in motion and still together in a single file line it will disrupt regular foot traffic in the target area, making it difficult for the 1% and their minions to conduct their business.
Um, your event is on a Saturday, won’t (a contraction for “will not”) the 1 percenters be out on their yachts? Ok, but I am down with this plan, where’s all this happening?
Below is a map of the proposed route for the HPM. I have indicated target buildings in the Downtown Zone of Occupation with blue placemarks. We will make daily announcements of targeted buildings on the ground in the DZO and on this blog and associated social media pages once the Occupation begins.
Um, why would you protest the Indy Hilton? The Federal Bldg and Courthouse are closed on Saturday.
Actually, am I the only one who notes a lack of a blue placemark target building? I’ll give you one, and you’ll make it easier for me to cover you. The top righthand part of your map, 700 North Pennsylvania. Please go there. I’ll be the guy on the second floor laughing as you dirty hippies walk single file line outside my office.
OK dirty hippies, I will find you. How many trust fund babies in tie dyed shirts walking single file can be found in Indy on a Saturday? Should be easy to locate the 5 of you that show up for this asinine event.
Welcome back everyone. To see the latest brackets, here you go:
Today and tomorrow will be the voting for the Flag Officer and Seek Help Regional semi’s….who will be in the non-elite eight?
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Blowouts all the way through, with the 1,2,3,5 seeds well in the lead. (Soup, Lauve, Snake Eyes and Heavy Drop)
Next week will feature the Unsweet Sixteen going doing to the Non-Elite Eight. Probably keep each of them up for 2 days, with 2 regionals per post.
