Saddam Hussein: We Got Him
ThinkSoJoE note: Despite the fact that Saddam Hussein was hung to death last year, it just didn’t feel like stupid5pin without this article posted here. This column was the first one written when stupid5pin.com launched in December of 2003, it went up just as the site went live, and for anybody that wasn’t around during our original run, here it is again in it’s entirety…
We know the actual site isn’t up yet, but hey, look at what our boys dragged in!
That’s right, we have a genuine, bona fide, 100% guaranteed former Iraqi dictator!
So now what do we do? Should we bring him back here and put him in a room where any American can go in and beat him at will? Do we put him on a formal trial and sentence him to death? Do we tie him to a chair, pry his eyes open “A Clockwork Orange” style and force him to watch reruns of “Rosie?” Maybe we should sell him on eBay? Whatever we decide to do, we should not be gentle with him. My friend Jill says that we should “skin him alive and pour acid on his muscles as they peel the skin away,” which also sounds like a decent idea.
It’s been three hours since I first heard news of the capture on Toronto Ontario’s 102.1 The Edge. I’m home from work now and watching CBS news. It’s still hard to believe. The crawl on the bottom of ABC’s screen said that it is definitely Saddam. I can’t wait to find out what they do with the bastard. Hopefully somebody in charge of that will stop by this site and see my above suggestions. I mean, how much do you think the US Government could get if they sold Saddam on eBay? I’m sure any US citizen would love to have a real-life dictator like Saddam to boss around. Personally, I think that since his name is Saddam, we should “Saddamize” him… if you get my drift.
Thank you guys for reading my “column.” Send me feedback to skitzo@stupid5pin.com by commenting below or discussing this in the forums. If I get enough, I might write longer, funnier, less sleep deprived columns
Current Mood:
Confused
Is it legal for presidential candidates to advertise via Google AdSense? An ad that came up on this site at the bottom of a recent blog entry is supporting Senator John McCain for President. I’m going on record right now to say that I do NOT support Senator McCain in his bid for the presidency, and though I can’t speak for the rest of the S5P crew, I think it’s wrong that a candidate be allowed to have ads on Google’s AdSense or advertising programs of a similar nature. It makes it look like the sites that those ads appear on support that candidate, even though in most cases that is simply not true. To be quite honest, after the last seven years, I don’t support any republican candidate and I find it quite insulting that S5P, even momentarily (as I will be going to blacklist the ad after I finish this entry), would be possibly portrayed as associating with a member of the Republican party. Hopefully I’m not violating my AdSense terms of service by mentioning the ads within the site content, but I’m just pissed about the fact that John McCain is advertising on the bottom of my website. Might as well be an ad for George W Bush as far as I’m concerned.
Current Mood:
Happy
In my last post, I said that I found an image I wanted to use, and here it is:
That’s the temporary page that was put up when we were in between servers – click on it to open it, and look at the last item in the gray bar. Apparently, stupid5pin.net is a popular place to search for old ladies!
Current Mood: Peaceful
Well, I was going through some of the stuff from when we had our down time while waiting for the transition between servers to go through, and I found an image I really wanted to use in the blog when we came back online that I had forgotten about. So I just took the time to fix the columnist text editors to include an image-posting button so I could put it up, and wouldn’t you know it, I’m at work on my laptop, the image is on my desktop at home. So I guess that one is waiting for tomorrow.
So why in the hell am I writing a blog about a future blog? Well, quite honestly I just wanted to play around with some of the buttons I have on here now with the newest update, including…
- A Smiley button:
- A font family button, complete with a font size option
- font color and background color buttons
- an Image button:
That ordered list? Done with a button. Then there’s a button I could’ve used the other day:
An indentation button. I really wanted to have this function when quoting news articles and websites in regards to Heath Ledger’s death in our latest column.
And of course, that link, provided by the link button. I’m having some fun messing with all the new stuff I can do here, though I’m sure it’s not a very entertaining blog entry. It’s just here. Don’t forget to check back around 8AM for a new blog featuring an image I thought was kind of funny!
Current Mood: Happy
Well, as some of you know, I’m in a heavy metal band called thinksobrain here in Western New York. Well, while I was working on re-launching S5P, I was feeling pretty creative and I built my own pedal board, which means I can get rid of my effects processor. Not that any non-musicians reading this will have any clue what I’m talking about, but since I’m only writing this blog entry because I said that I was going to do daily blog entries, I don’t really care.
Hey, there’s a new Simpsons episode on tonight. Apparently it’s a flashback to the 90’s and Homer invents grunge music. It’s gonna be a fun episode to watch, I’d imagine, however, us wrestling fans are watching the WWE Royal Rumble. Not to mention that the NHL All-Star game is on tonight. Too bad I don’t have a second reciever for my cable, I’d DVR both The Simpsons and the NHL All-Star game.
Meanwhile, I’m looking for columnists, so if anybody’s interested, register for the site and send me a PM on the forums. Just click my name at the bottom of this blog entry, it’ll take you straight to my profile.
Current Mood:
Accomplished
As you see, we’re LIVE here on stupid5pin.net! There’s still some more stuff to take care of, like adding some more games to the arcade, but other than that,
S5P IS LIVE!!!
Well, it’s finally here, the launch of the new stupid5pin.net. When stupid5pin.com first launched, the big news was Saddam Hussein being captured in Iraq by U.S. Forces. This time around, the big news is Heath Ledger’s untimely passing earlier in the week. While we here at stupid5pin.net would like to send our condolences to the friends and family of the late Mr. Ledger, there are others who are not so kind. I’d like to talk about a couple of them today, both of whom are in the running to be the first 2008 Idiot of the Month!
The first issue is with a group of people, who we may have mentioned before on S5P, but regardless, we’re going to bring them up again. The Westboro Babptist Church in Topeka, Kansas is planning to protest Heath Ledger’s funeral (or were planning on it, if it already happened – I didn’t do my research), and also the Oscars. The “Church” is headed up by Fred Phelps of “God Hates Fags” fame. Here’s the word from ABC News’ Russell Goldman:
“A fundamentalist church whose members demonstrate at the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq and believe God hates gays will protest the Academy Awards and the funeral of Heath Ledger, because the actor played a gay cowboy in the 2005 film “Brokeback Mountain.”