You didn’t lift that!

You didn’t lift that! “A North Korean won Olympic gold. But he didn’t lift that: ‘I am very happy and give thanks to our Great Leader for giving me the strength to lift this weight. I believe Kim Jong Il gave me the record and all my achievements. It is all because of him,’ Om said.” Yup, a little tub of lard is the source of every North Korean’s strength just like a gaffe-prone doofus is the source of every American’s smarts. The “joke” sign is lit all over the world.

Bonfire of the Absurdities: After 35 year career writing software for IBM mainframes, am now self-employed contractor thinking of joining a union and striking for higher wages. Cured morbid fear of heights when I learned to look at them as lengths standing on end. Uncompromising in refusal to accept browser cookies. Amateur investor who has accumulated a small fortune in the market after starting out years ago with a large one. For recreation, I run, hike, kayak and play tennis but will not consider synchronized swimming under any circumstances.

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  • Did anybody see the North Korean girl who jerked over 300lbs. over her head and won the gold this morning? With out a doubt the weirdest, saddest display of a destroyed human being I have ever seen. Not a smile, when given her gold medal, her clothes looked crappy. When her anthem was played she looked at the floor with no smile or emotion. It was sad and really weird.

  • Beck, yesterday was comparing what the N. Korean media gives their people, compared to what ours gives us. (I found this to be really scary!) Their media tells the population that Kim was an Olympian, had written three operas, hadn't defecated nor urinated for three years. (that MUST have hurt!) Sounds a lot like the crap our media slings about obomie.

  • I wonder if Great Leader is responsible for my queasy headache and spinning stomach this afternoon.

  • I hear North Korea's new national anthem is going to be "He ain't heavy, he's my brother."