Sunday Funnies

o A guy in Germany who lost both arms in a farming accident is now sporting two transplanted arms. Among “his ultimate goals” is to ride a motorcycle. Um... is it too late to take the arms back? Which is to say, Germany clearly needs more arms control.

o “Winter will start early this year”, according to AccuWeather. But it will, of course, be blamed on global warming. What's it going to take to convince people that “global warming” is the meteorologists' equivalent of the stock market bubble? Another Ice Age? No, that wouldn't do it either – any more than all the revelations about the Gulag have changed the minds of any of our chic communists. Ah, the true believers – they will always be with us.

o Why can't this country be more like... India? In the resort area of Goa, an Australian tourist was beaten to death by waiters for “being 'arrogant' while ordering a beer in a restaurant”. Well... having shared space at bars with various loud and obnoxious characters, I can fully sympathize with the waiters in question. I don't know what, if any, punishment they're in for, but it certainly can't be as bad as “sensitivity training”, American style.

o And speaking of tourists, it turns out that many traditional inns and hotels in Japan don't want foreign guests. It kind of makes sense until you reflect on the impression Japanese tourists usually make over here. I wonder if those same places would be willing to accept _Japanese_ guests?

o A politician in Norway got into hot water for having run up phone bills making calls to fortune tellers. Well, gee, it was only a phone bill. Look at how much our government pays “consultants”, and then look at how accurate and useful those consultants' advice is... then tell me who got the better deal.

o So North Korea is being removed from a list of nations that sponsor terrorism because they've agreed to some inspections of their nuclear facilities? Could someone please tell me how one relates to the other? We could be doing all the inspecting in the world over there and they could still be feeding guns and ammo to terrorists. File it under “apples and oranges”.

o So Obama's campaign – well, ACORN actually, as if there's a difference – is registering all sorts of bogus, fictitious, and dead voters, in true Chicago style. I don't even know why they're bothering, frankly – if the Republicans were dead meat a month ago, now they're dead meat that has already been devoured by vultures (and whaddaya know, there was not one spine among them!). I predict a crushing defeat for the Republicans that will effectively put them out of business – and deservedly so. But will that really change anything? No.

o BTW, Pat Buchanan thinks McCain still has a chance. Well, right – and there's also a “chance” -- in some alternate universe – that the Tinfoil Hat Elvis UFO Bigfoot party will walk off with all the electoral votes. No, I think in a month Sarah Palin will be back in Valhalla – or whatever the name of that town is – where she belongs.