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Monday, 6 March 2006
Heart of Darko Has Heart Disease
Topic: Housekeeping

Not really, but we've been pretty horrendously sick since Saturday night, so needless to say, you might have to go elsewhere for your daily dose of idiocy. Hopefully we'll be back up and running tomorrow, because if not, we're gonna jump out the goddamn window.

Posted by James at 12:44 PM CST
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Friday, 3 March 2006
Keep on Slinging Your Crackberry!
Topic: Technology

Because a nice settlement just said sure why not allow the Blackberry community to keep their gatekeepers to the modern world, we're adding a new topic to our list; technology.

In case that was too confusing, we'll put it easily: Research in Motion (RIM) agreed to pay NTP (not National Tire & Battery) $612.5 million to continue to use their technology to power millions of American's wholly addictive Blackberrys (i.e. Crackberrys). This avoids an injunction that would've shut down the Blackberry service, leaving millions of businessmen/women and politicians having to pick up a normal phone while trying to use an archaic tool called a "computer."

So rejoice, technogeeks, because you can keep your tool. We ditched ours a mere year after we purchased it because it had occurred to us that we had not had human contact or moved from the toilet seat in three straight days and our legs had begun to atrophy while our ass began conforming to the bowl. Good times.


MSNBC

Posted by James at 4:58 PM CST
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Settlement In Crackberry Patent Case???
Topic: National News

Word came down to us through someone tied close to the civil suit that an agreement might have been reached in the Blackberry patent violation case. No word as of yet on what that settlement is, but when we know, you'll know.

Unless, of course, Blackberry lost and we can't access our Crackberry to post the info. Then you won't find out jack shit from us.

Posted by James at 4:07 PM CST
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Hollywood Dirty Cop Movies Come to Life in LA Corruption Bust
Topic: National News

In what will no doubt become a series of a dozen shitty cop movies over the next two years, half of which will star Steven Seagal, five former LAPD officers have been arrested for carrying out false searches and warrants on drug houses and then stealing money, guns and dope to sell on the streets.

"While this story sounds like a script from 'The Shield' or 'Training Day,' it actually happened here in L.A.," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas O'Brien.

See? They even agree with us on it!

Only five of the 19 people arrested are former officers, but their ring leader supplied the group with uniforms, badges and even squad cars to help carry out the raid. The group stole over 600 pounds of marijuana, TVs, jewelry, money and rifles during their "raids," which were carried out using false search warrants.

The leader of the group, Officer Ruben Palomares, is already serving jail time for drug trafficking. What's sad is we wrote a novel about this exact thing back in 2000. This happened in 2001. Those sons of bitches stole our idea! Plagiarism!


AP via YAHOO! NEWS

Posted by James at 1:59 PM CST
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Florida Cat Shot Six Times; Still Alive With Three to Go
Topic: National News

A south Florida cat that was used as point blank target practice by some asshole with a .22 will carry six bullets with her for the rest of her three remaining lives as police search for the perp.

"This was target practice -- point blank target practice," owner Lynne Gradus said. "There were three (bullets) on one side, two on the other and one on his stomach. So, this was not one shot. This was a person who enjoyed shooting a little helpless pet."

The four-year-old cat, Mushki, is in fine health after a local veterinarian said it would be more dangerous to try to remove the bullets from kitty's body. We're big fans of finding this person, tying them to a tree, and then shooting them in every joint in their body with a bow and arrow. Somehow we think that would be a deterrent against this sort of animal cruelty.


FLORIDA TODAY

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Thursday, 2 March 2006
Many NFL Veterans Already Victims on "Bloody Thursday"
Topic: Sports

Because they have their "best interest's at heart," the NFL player's union rejected the final salary cap proposal given today by the owner's union, thus throwing many of their revered and celebrated veteran football players under the wheels of a speeding bus because they wanted more mediation money.

And to make matters worse, players are calling all sorts of media outlets saying that they didn't even know anything about the negotiations failing until Tuesday evening when it was officially announced. Oops.

Some possible victims before the slaughter is over could be as big as future Hall of Famer Brett Favre and shitty NY Jets quarterback Chad Pennington. Our team (and America's Team - ed.), the Cowboys, have already cut Pro Bowl lineman La'Roi Glover to make room under the salary cap restrictions.

So go to the link below to learn more about what's going on and how the cap works, and pray for your favorite players and their jobs on what is now known as Bloody Thursday.


FOX SPORTS

Posted by James at 4:58 PM CST
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British Police Arrest 14th Person Involved in $90+ Million Heist!
Topic: World News

As we reported late last month, the world's largest heist ever took place in London and involved a kidnapping, two teams of thieves, and no gunfire.

Now the British police have really gotten cracking, especially after they lost over $92 million during the robbery. In fact, they've arrested their 14th person in connection with the crime and are currently combing a farm for either money or bodies or drugs or something.

This is awesome. We're so subscribing to this story.


MSNBC

Posted by James at 11:48 AM CST
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NBC White House Correspondent and Today Show Seat Filler Calls Imus Radio Show While Drunk
Topic: Media

Oh David Gregory, you madman of NBC. Besides being a massive chop dick who is so obviously in love with Katie Couric that you should just lick her the next time you fill on for Matt Lauer on Today, you're also notable for being the White House correspondent for NBC who called Scotty McClellan a jerk after you attacked him on not knowing the answer to one of your questions.

So what have you done now to make it to the pages of Heart of Darko? You called Don Imus's radio show... while you were drunk. Dude, the show's on at 5:00 in the morning. We hope that you were in the back of a limo with some strippers on your way home from the China Club, because if you were just drunk in the morning for no reason, you've got a problem bub.

GREGORY: i was -- remember that movie "Arthur" with Dudley Moore where he just thinks funny things and that's what was going on. If i could find this sheet, actually i just found it. Anyway.

IMUS: You have any news? [Laughter]

IMUS: we got to go, we'll get back to you.

GREGORY: I'm sorry.

IMUS: That's all right.

IMUS: Well, call us back will you?

GREGORY: Anyway. There are serious things going on here which i know you're very interested in.

IMUS: We don't have any time for them now. Quickly.

GREGORY: Big deal between India and the United States. The upshot is we're going to provide nuclear know-how and fuel to India which they need for their economy to grow. But since they never signed the nonproliferation treaty it's a real turn around and critics worry that it sends the wrong message to other parts of the world.

IMUS: Ok.

GREGORY: I would add, i would add that this is how you say thank you.

IMUS: What is it again?

[Speaking foreign language]

IMUS: Well that's great. But we have to go. It's always nice to hear from you.

GREGORY: I'll call you after dinner.

IMUS: NBC Chief White House correspondent from New Delhi, India. Clearly drunk.



DRUDGE REPORT

Posted by James at 11:20 AM CST
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Crazed Woman Said Mentally Challenged Kids Requested to Sleep in Cages
Topic: National News

The Ohio woman who kept multiple special needs children that she had adopted in steel cages with alarms said that the mentally handicapped kids actually, wait for it, ASKED to sleep in cages.

Even though she testified that it started off innocently enough. She and her husband built a series of bunk beds with a "playpen" attached to them for the kids' toys. After a while, they added steel wire and an alarm because the kids would act up and go punch and threaten each other with knives. And some of those kids asked if they could sleep in cages.

Of course, she met her husband at a dinner for sex abuse victims, so there's already a history of a little coo-cooness there. Hopefully she'll have her kids taken away. We can understand keeping them in a steel cage for disciplinary reasons. That's all well and normal, right? But to sleep? That's stretching it.


AP via YAHOO! NEWS

Posted by James at 10:32 AM CST
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Wednesday, 1 March 2006
The Return of Bird Flu Frenzy! RUN FOR YOUR PETS' LIVES!
Topic: World News

With a case of bird flu jumping from a bird to a car in Germany and successfully killing it, people every have returned to the bird flu freak out. Germany is requiring that all cats be kept in doors. The Bahamas are testing dead flamingos to see if they died of the disease, all the while the company that makes Tamiflu is probably wiping their ass with $100 bills while laughing maniacally.


DEAD GERMAN CATS

DEAD PINK BIRDS

CHICKEN GENOCIDE

NOTHING TO DO WITH BIRD FLU, JUST TO LIGHTEN THE MOOD

Posted by James at 2:19 PM CST
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Seven-Year-Old Girl Brings Tons of Blow For Classmates!
Topic: National News

No one has ever claimed Philly to be a city of class and taste, but it appears that their drug problem is getting way out of hand. Police confirmed that a seven-year-old girl brought 18 bags of cocaine to her elementary school and then passed them around the classroom, during which times a couple of the curious kids ate some of the white powder.

Teachers were alerted to what was going on when one of the students who ate some of the blow began to shake violently. Guess it doesn't take much to OD a 50 pound kid.

"I ate it. I asked, 'What is it?' I spit it out and I was like, 'What is it?'" said Shaniya Brown, 7.

"I took her to the hospital because she said when they were in there, when she took it, she started shaking and she couldn't stop shaking," her mother said.


Good night and good luck indeed! What the hell are you doing Philadelphia? Police have no idea where she could've gotten the drugs, but we're going to venture a guess of, hmm, the parents maybe? Idiots. Cut your mullet. Then solve crimes.


NBC10

Posted by James at 10:20 AM CST
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Leave it to the Scots to Create a 184-Proof Whisky
Topic: World News

A team of Scottish artisan distillers have completed, and plan on selling, a 184-proof whisky. As you may remember from high school, a proof of 184 means that the libation is 92 percent alcohol, meaning more than two tablespoonfuls could kill you. Or at least make you the life of the party.

The distillery that is making it said before they were going to serve it to anybody, they were going to install web cams in their facility so that people who are interested can see the effects on other folks, animals, machinery, the creatures from Alien, etc. Seriously, this stuff would probably be like acid to your throat. We've taken shots of Everclear and can imagine that this would just stop your mouth from functioning all together. Sweet.


AFP via YAHOO! NEWS

Posted by James at 8:45 AM CST
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Tuesday, 28 February 2006
Just Because It's Stupid, We Give You "The Flamboyant Referee"
Topic: Sports

Thanks to Will Leitch and all the guys at Deadspin for this nice video of the most flamboyant soccer referee ever. We'd imagine it would be rather hard to play a game with this guy on the field. Just watch and laugh.





Posted by James at 5:17 PM CST
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U.S. Media Gets Massive Erection Waiting for Iraq Civil War; A Heart of Darko Opinion Column
Topic: Media

The first rule of journalism that we were taught in our very first writing class was "If it bleeds, it leads." This mindset has fallen by the wayside in the 24-hour news cycle, with this level of awfulness and violence unable to continue to be sustain an entire day of news.

Now the day has come where the media is licking its lips, waiting to be able to take their journalistic erections and swing them at President, whom they all believe to be the most evil man in the country, because that's what their journalism professors told them to think. Trust us - we know first hand.

Before you say "this is a bunch of crap, shut up right-winger," know that we think Bush screwed up in Iraq big time and has done so pretty much since being elected to his second term. All in all, he has made things worse. But the man is looking for help and support, and constantly attacking him over petty, obviously racist crap like the ports deal is nothing but taking a hypocritical advantage of a situation. Yes, we're looking at you, Democrats.

If a civil war erupts in Iraq, who will be pleased? Bush? Of course not. We can tell you who, and in what order:

1.) Bin Laden
2.) Al Qaeda
3.) Insurgents
4.) Media

This is a holy war for the media, where they can scrutinize our government until the blood vessels in their eyes burst. Because what will happen? American soldiers will die. And the 24-hour-news cycle will have its blood.

It reminds us of 2004 during the Presidential election, when John Kerry said that Bush would instantly start a draft as soon as he was elected. The leftist hawks screamed this for months, and no one on the right gave a damn. Bush won, no draft.

The far left (we mean Al Franken, Sen. Kerry, Sen. Kennedy far left - ed.) is once again screaming Iraqi civil war, doing nothing but helping the attacks become even more violent. After all, anyone with a phone line can get the online copy of the New York Times. And the American media is listening... because their professors told them who to listen to.

Trust us - we know first hand.


MSNBC

Posted by James at 5:06 PM CST
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Google Stock Takes a Dump!
Topic: National News

Stock in Google dropped over $50 today after the company's CFO announced that growth was slowing down and "largely organic." The stock currently rests at $357.37, down $33, meaning that it had a slight recovery since Wall Street freaked out and began to dump the stock, which some financial advisors have called a high risk because of Google's lack of assets.

If this isn't proof positive of that, we don't know what is. Let's take a look at the timeline:

1.) Stock up to around $380
2.) CFO says growth "slowing." Not stopped, not negative, not bad, but "slowing"
3.) Stock drops $50
4.) Other internet companies take hits, including eBay, Yahoo and Baidu
5.) Google recovers $17 of its losses

So yes, the tech bubble is back ladies and gentlemen. And if we had taken the opportunity that was given to us to buy into the incredible money-making IPO like we should have, we would currently be righting this from Jamaica, where half naked islanders would bring us cocktails and we would be dictating this post to a sixteen-year-old student.

Dear god that would be the good life.


REUTERS

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Bush Approval Ratings In! Welcome to the Suck
Topic: Politics

What with the Dubai port anger and all the Cheney shooting his friend stuff, President Bush's approval ratings took a slide from the 42% it was at last week to an astoundingly low 34% this week, pretty much because people don't trust anything Arab.

Yes, guess you're right, we are supporters of the Dubai port deal. It's a British company that has its headquarters in Dubai folks. The Coast Guard will still be running security not Al Qaeda. Funny how the Democrats can argue racism against the GOP, but then they have no problem flaunting their own.

Perhaps this is a ploy by the Bush Administration to show the leftist thoughts on race and prove that they're simply using them for votes and really couldn't give a crap about them. Or maybe we're giving Bush too much credit and he's getting a kickback. Probably the second.


REUTERS via YAHOO! NEWS

Posted by James at 10:17 AM CST
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Fat Tuesday Returns to New Orleans!
Topic: National News

We have all been inundated by the stories already; New Orleans is returning to what it was. Drunks are back, women are flashing and the bars are open. That can only mean one thing; we're in town.

No kidding. If you turned on your TV this morning while rubbing the eye boogers deeper into your tear glands and scratching yourselves for five minutes, you were undoubtedly not able to find a single station that didn't have something to do with Katrina coverage and Fat Tuesday. Today was forcing it down our throats like we were a subservient hooker. We're pretty sure Cartoon Network had something on it too.

So no matter what you decide to do tonight, be safe and don't drive drunk. Personally, we're not doing shit because there's no point. We have a fridge full of cheap beer and are wondering how we're going to pay our bills, and we can think of no better way of celebrating the current state of New Orleans than by living like that.

P.S. - For the record, the only thing we like about the Today show are Katie Couric's legs. We don't even like Katie. Just her legs.

Posted by James at 9:35 AM CST
Updated: Tuesday, 28 February 2006 9:45 AM CST
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Monday, 27 February 2006
Today in Drunks; A Heart of Darko Salute to Alcoholics
Topic: Stupidity

A 40-year-old Scottsdale man was found at his home with a whopping .345 blood alcohol concentration after he passed out and his 5-year-old daughter called 911. Alcohol experts (how exactly does one attain this job? - ed.) said that with this level of drink in his system, the effects were close to those of surgical anesthesia.

After coming to from his near coma amount of alcohol intake, the man might face criminal child endangerment charges, even though we find it interesting you can be charged with being TOO drunk in your own home. Granted, the only food in the house was bread and peanut butter.

But the police should be looking towards his ex-wife, who dropped their daughter off before going to Hawaii for a vacation. Of course, we can't blame her either. After spending some significantly long weeks in Scottsdale, we'd either leave for a much better place or drink ourselves into a coma too.


AZCENTRAL

Posted by James at 4:43 PM CST
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Winter Olympics 2006; A Grand and Awful Ending
Topic: Sports

Torino was a wonderful host city to athletes from across the world. They kept their bars open late for drunkards like Bode Miller and gave out large baskets of free Olympic-themed condoms (note to porn industry; why no Olympic pornos? that's a huge international audience you're missing. we call dibs! if you make one, it was our idea and we want royalties! - ed.).

But just as the oddly surreal opening ceremonies kicked off the weird stories of the following two weeks, the closing ceremonies ended in a loud thud. Designed to be more high energy, by herding the athletes in and out quickly and getting to the performances of the international acts.

Somehow, though, in between the dudes with their heads on fire, the Vancouver mayor waving the flag from his wheel chair (awesome, by the way - ed.) and the hundreds of Nordic chicks with torches, we found the ceremonies incredibly boring. Then Avril Lavigne came on board to warble and cause us to almost drink a bullet cocktail.

Terrible performances. Just... ugh. Ricky Martin? Did Mexico even have a Winter Olympics team? We never even made it through to the end. After watching probably 70% of the coverage shown, including the replays of the hockey games from the middle of the day, we couldn't face the closing ceremonies all the way through. It was goddamn painful. Hopefully Vancouver will realize this in 2010, and instead of having awful musical acts while dudes with fire ponytails short track skate in circles, Canada will get some of its native born daughters like Pamela Anderson and Elisha Cuthbert to wrestle each other in frigid water for three hours. Now that we would watch.

Adios Olympic games. See you in Beijing in 2008.

Posted by James at 4:27 PM CST
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Ford Motor Company Proves One Way to Get Cheaper Labor; Torture Union Bosses
Topic: Cars/Automotive

Just, wow. Ford Motor Company is being sued by Argentinian labor officials for kidnapping and torture today. The officials claimed that during the country's "Dirty War" period of 1976 - 1983, they were taken from their homes, beaten and electrically shocked during the then-dictatorship's "cleansing" of hostiles and dissidents.

Ford has been mute on the point, but now that they're being sued in a civil for assisting with the kidnappings of the union officials, it could come to bite them even more in the ass when they should be capitalizing on GM turning into a walking pile of shit.

Mercedes was also involved with kidnapped employees during this time, and even though 15 of the 18 were never found, they're not mentioned anywhere in the suit. And people wonder why we bought a Subaru...


CNN MONEY via JALOPNIK

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