Lazy Blogging = Scavenger Hunt II
February 2nd, 2006 at 10:06 pm by CrankyIt’s Friday, you know what that means… Well, besides Football Friday.
Yep, it’s our Scavenger Hunt!
Today’s mission is about variety. Just return an MSM or other “objective” news source link for any of these:
1) An article on illegal immigration that features a quote from an Hispanic-American who is for border control.
2) Any article about Cindy Sheehan that identifies her as something other than a “Peace Activist” or “Grieving Mom”.
3) Any article on smoking bans that doesn’t ultimately pit “big tobacco” vs “health officials”. I’m looking for an article that even hints that Joe Smoker is getting fed up at the excessive regulation.
Remember the basic rules:
- The more “reputable” the source, the more points. e.g. Salon = 8 pts., LA Times = 50 pts.
- The closer the fit, the more points.
- Please leave your entries in the comments.
- Any game-show pictures and/or quotes can earn you bonus points.
Today’s winner will receive a partially dismembered “Hello Kitty” doll or an attractive all-glass nativity scene set.
Well, due to tremendous last-minute interest and the fervent desire not to “disenfranchise” voters, we kept the polls open. It is 5:00pm EST and voting is now closed.
The Judges have just handed me the the envelope by Arther Anderson-certified auditors. Let’s read the results.
SIN took an early commanding lead with a “Dancin’ Alito“, a Chicago Tribune blog post on oppressive smoking taxes and this gem on illegal immigration:
Scoring: Dancin’ Alito: 20 points for an awesome gif, -10 because, as amusing as the confirmation was, it was not technically a gameshow.
Chicago Tribune Blog article: 75 points because it hits the nail on the head. -50 because it is the Chigago Tribune Blog. Come on SIN, nothing is less credible than a blog. Who reads that crap?
Great Anti Illegal Immigration article: Same issue. 100 points for a perfect match. -90 because you cited the website of the mooniest moonbat in the conservative camp – Alan Freakin’ Keyes. SIN, Lyndon LaRouche is on line one, he’d like to talk to you….
Final Score: 45
Next up, the imminently disqualifiable Smantix. Sman, we love you here at the Buffet, but for the last time you and your immedate family don’t qualify. Oh yeah, and stay away from the meat tenderizer.
Scoring: Anti-smoking article. I’m dissapointed. This is the nicest thing you could find?
He has a point. I meant to say something about the difficulty of making the law’s 65/35 split, even with cigarettes at $8 a pack and coffee at a rock bottom $1.25 a cup. But it was pleasant to spend an hour or two, smoking cigarette after cigarette, chatting with the young, attractive staff, and remembering that not every minute must be used productively, and we all gotta die sometime.
If we were scoring: 50 for Sun Times, -30 for closeness.
Another smoking article from Brandweek was right on the money until the author made an abrupt left turn at Tinfoil Hat Lane. Seven paragraphs on the Chicago ban and it’s impact seemed a long way to go just to get the punchline about illegal wiretapping and the “war on terror”.
Interesting read, unheard of source. 25 points. (Note, I just fired off an email to the editors).
The LA Times article, likewise was a very interesting read. Sadly, only the weakest link to Cindy (yes, they’re both Bat-guano crazy). Score 15
“Who could forget Ray Combs?”
Ray Combs? Sorry doesn’t ring a bell.
Total Score: 0
Next up ViVi.
I admire ViVi. Her capacity for bloodthirsty competition would leave Donald Trump a quivering mass.
Scoring: Anti-anti-smoking article. Like Smantix, right on the money. But also like SIN, found an advocacy web site, not an MSM source. This quote:
comes from the unhinged Heartland Institute. From their Libertarianism-dripping mission statement.
Crazy, Man! 50 points for article -40 for source.
Regarding illegal immigration we have this solid gold quote:
You had me at Orange County Republican. But people – I don’t know how many times I need to repeat myself – find MSM sources. The U. S. Border Control site doesn’t strike me as an “objective” source.
Ditto 50 points for great article -40 for finding a site that CBS would never cite.
Dick Clark: Dick Clark! 20 bonus points.
This takes ViVi to 40 points – still lagging behind SIN at 45. Can she usurp the crown from our current winner?
Let’s see, shall we?
From Norah O’Donnell’s full, pouty lips to Colleen Rowley:
Well, MSNBC is as about as reputable as any other cable news outlet and even rivals the Home and Garden channel for street cred, so 30 points.
Total Score: 70
We have a new winner! Way to go ViVi.
The choice of the mutilated Hello Kitty doll or the glass Nativity scene is yours. If you have the courage to entrust Six Meat Buffet with your address, the prize will be sent to you.
Or if you prefer, just specify an unmarked dumpster behind your favorite Best Buy and I’ll leave it under it for pickup.
February 2nd, 2006 at 10:21 pm
WOOT WOOT WOOT. Although, the prize is not particularly motivating, but this is my chance to take the title away from sinner.
February 2nd, 2006 at 10:33 pm
Also, Cranky, it’s actually Thursday, unless you’re across the international date line.
Just sayin’.
February 2nd, 2006 at 11:49 pm
Just sayin’.
comment by Preston Taylor Holmes — Thursday, February 2, 2006 @ 10:33 pm
HA! I didnt even notice that. Ok, well, I’m getting started on the extra credit first:
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2806/2009/1600/richard%20dawson.jpg
February 3rd, 2006 at 1:28 am
Looks like Friday to me.
Shutup Holmes, bastard.
February 3rd, 2006 at 11:47 am
America first! Jon Alvarez. Seal the boarders “damit”
Chicago Tribune | Eric Zorn a non-smoker says “enough already!”
Our newest game show host from “Don’t Cook that Criminal”
http://www.splendoroftruth.com/curtjester/dancinalito.gif
Sure. Now Vivi will work hard a kitty is involved.
February 3rd, 2006 at 11:50 am
Oh crap, the links!
Link 1
Link 2
February 3rd, 2006 at 3:19 pm
You go, SIN! You are clearly in the lead. Nice research too.
C’mon people, except for whining about Thursday Nite/Friday Morning, I’m getting nothin’ here.
February 3rd, 2006 at 3:33 pm
I’m going to keep whining if you people don’t wrap your links in a href= tags and demolish the layout!
You’re risking disqualification with that one, Sinn.
February 3rd, 2006 at 4:57 pm
You’re risking disqualification with that one, Sinn.
comment by Preston Taylor Holmes — Friday, February 3, 2006 @ 3:33 pm
Bite me Preston before I demolish you.
February 4th, 2006 at 10:16 am
Even though I get disqualified right off the bat:
An unusual and complimentary piece on tobacco, third down from the Chicago Sun-Times:
“We’re big believers in tobacco,” McGearty said. “There’s a romance behind it. A beautiful romance to tobacco.”
[...]
“We wanted to create a smoker’s paradise,” he said. “If you’re a smoker, this is the place. Have some fun, we don’t have to take ourselves so frickin’ seriously.”
[...]
But it was pleasant to spend an hour or two, smoking cigarette after cigarette, chatting with the young, attractive staff, and remembering that not every minute must be used productively, and we all gotta die sometime.
And a semi-confusing piece from the advertising trade mag Brand Week where we must all fight against smoking bans because Smirk W. wants to put microchips in their nicotine patches and control their behavior.
RE: Sheehan – The postal worker who went, er…postal, was a big fan apparently. From the LA Times.
“Jennifer was crazy,” said Graham’s boyfriend, Eddie Blomfield. “She’d stand outside and sing as loud as she could, she’d go on tirades. Bev would open the door and tell her to shut up.”
[...]
But mostly he remembered his girlfriend as a woman who loved John Lennon and antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan, and all sorts of books and films; her nickname was Estrella, Spanish for star.
If only this nutjob could’ve been St. Cindy’s Mark David Chapman.
And Ray Combs. How could we forget Ray Combs?
February 4th, 2006 at 11:04 am
AWWWW Man, Is it over? I have a note from my parents excusing my absence. I cant let Sin win again.
February 4th, 2006 at 1:14 pm
1. Tobacco Taxes Proportionately Unfair to Smokers from Heartland Org. (and properly tagged)
US Border Control (properly tagged):
(blockquoted, unless it doesnt accept the html tag)
More to come….
February 4th, 2006 at 1:15 pm
OH, would you look at that beautiful blockquote? No way can you find a better quote than that! Gotta run now.
February 4th, 2006 at 1:18 pm
Dick Clark, eh?
Now, just gotta find Sheehan, dammit!
February 4th, 2006 at 1:35 pm
MARK WILLIAMS, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: I have not spoken with a single individual in the last three years who is pro-war, nor anybody who is anti-Cindy Sheehan. What we are against is the damage she is causing. I just got back from Iraq, talking with the troops, talking with the Iraqis. And I see the damage that’s done by pathetic creatures like the woman I’m talking to and Cindy Sheehan. MSNBC
February 4th, 2006 at 11:54 pm
::gloating in SIN’s general direction::
Um, if you’ll just designate an unmarked overpass for the drop, Sin’s contact will retrieve. You knew I was playing for the kitty, right?
February 5th, 2006 at 1:34 am
Way to go Vi, You slut. SHE had the nerve to add Dick Clark as a game show host. Last I saw him, the only thing he was hosting was a pre-paid burial account. Heh.