NIRE SMASH

[the_wanlorn]

 
This is just not my week. Right now, I'm hiding from doing homework for my Theories of Computation class, because it involves proofs. Which I can't do because I'm stupid. Fucking proofs.

And my thermos leaks, so I have orange soda all over the inside of my lunchbox. BRILLIANT. Except not.

So, here, have some YouTube links.

On this one, Keith Olbermann talks about 9/11. And by "talks about" I mean, "has a nine minute message for the president". It's eloquent, heartfelt, and quite depressing in some parts. Overall, a rousing "Fuck you" to Bush, and a promise to never forget. Or forgive.

On a happier note, here we have a clip from The Daily Show. It is fucking hilarious. So hilarious that both Stewart and Colbert break down around four and a half minutes in. At the end, it takes Colbert three or four tries to get his last line out. I've watched it something like four times now, and it just gets funnier and funnier.

Watch for the banana. That's all I'm saying, the banana.

ETA: Who the fuck would do something this stupid and cruel? Fuck you world, I'm quitting.
 

Comments

[emiweebee.livejournal.com]

Nire is much better than mine.

On the last link: I was just reading a quick article on NYTimes about a farmer up by Storm King in NY state who was accused of animal cruelty (three species, emaciated/hoof illness/skin conditions), and the reaction of local farmers? "That's what a real barn's like, and now we're all cruel?"

Bull. Shit.

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

That is so NOT what a real barn is like. Last I checked, farmers took care of their livestock because sick animals lose them money. Even if they aren't paying vet bills, emaciated animals - especially when combined with hoof and skin fuckery - don't do as much work or sell for as much, either alive or as meat.

It's just all-around bad business. And thus lies.

[emiweebee.livejournal.com]

I was like, well, yes, I can imagine a barn where one horse has a hoof issue and another a skin issue. But not a barn where more than those two suffer from rain rot and founder, no.

Unless the other farmers were saying it's quite normal to not feed your animals, nor muck out their stalls. Actually, they were trying to say it's not possible to clean a stall daily, which kind of goes against farming theory as standing in manure=thrush.

Also, this guy apparently would hold fundraisers in his "extremely clean" barn, which immediately set off my alarm bells. Our barn did that once; the horses were outside for 24+ hours, one foundered horribly, and as she was brought into the barn, sick as a dog, the rest of the staff were freaking out about her possibly soiling the floor. So a clean barn, also, is not a good barn.

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

Actually, they were trying to say it's not possible to clean a stall daily, which kind of goes against farming theory as standing in manure=thrush.

I'd agree with them in that, and just assume that they're wording themselves horribly. At the (solely equine) barn I used to work at, we worked in "shifts", sort of. Half the stalls would be cleaned Monday, the other half Tuesday.

I certainly get not being able to muck each stall every single day. But I never recall letting any single stall go for more then 3 days, at the most.

And fundraisers?? In an "extremely clean" barn?? Dear fucking gods, barns are almost to get anywhere near anything that high society (which is all I'd assume would go to fundraisers) would count as clean!

[emiweebee.livejournal.com]

When we did ours, that's why the horses were out for 24 hours. Got to clean. And we put down flooring over the indoor ring.

[oscf.livejournal.com]

the division of national opinion is so bad nowadays

[crazyasitsounds.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you put the funny one after the really depressing one.

[undiepantz.livejournal.com]

Keith Olbermann is a genius.
i absolutely loved it.

He is impecable.