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Wednesday, 18 October 2006
NY Funeral Home Directors Off to Jail for Organ Snatching; Own Horror Movie Coming Out Soon
Topic: Weird Shit

Seven funeral directors from outside of New York City and Rochester, New York, have pleaded guilty in a secret hearing on multiple counts from their admittal to having stolen multiple organs from recently deceased people and selling them to organ remittance services for a hefty profit.

Joining them will be a former oral surgeon, who made untold millions of dollars unloading the organs across the country, which infected multiple recipients, mostly because they're not fucking zombies and could not accept the dead tissue.

Included in the case is the director of the funeral home which removed organs from late Masterpiece Theater host Alistair Cooke's body.  The district attorney had the right idea when he called the removal of skin, organs and bones from corpses "something out of a cheap horror movie."

Of course, if this were our movie (thank god it's not - ed.), the victims would come back to life to eat and rip apart the seven directors who did this to them.  The film would end with Alistair Cooke shoving an oversized leather-bound book down the throat of the owner of the biomedical tissue service.  Pure genius.  Make us an offer, Hollywood.  Make us an offer.

 

AP via YAHOO! 


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Thursday, 12 October 2006
Yankee Pitcher Killed in NYC Plane/Skyscraper Confrontation
Topic: National News

We're sure that by now, you have all heard about the single engine plane that crashed into a Manhattan skyscraper yesterday morning, which killed the two people aboard and raised the New York terror alert to "Holy Godfuck it Happened Again!"  But now new reports have come out that have confirmed that it was not only not a terrorist attack, but that the plane was piloted by New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle.

"This is a terrible and shocking tragedy that has stunned the entire organization Yankees owner George Steinbrenner said in a statement."

Lidle's passport was found in the street at the scene of the crash, and reports have been confirmed that he was on his way from New York City to California for the off-season.

Our thoughts are with Lidle's family, and even though we detest the Yankees as a baseball team (it's a Texas Rangers fan thing - ed.), as amateur pilots and human beings, we feel awful for something like this to happen to someone who was a fantastically gifted athlete.

 

FOX SPORTS 


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Wednesday, 11 October 2006
Canadian Man Steals Beer Truck, Crashes, Leaves Trail of Empties to Hiding Spot
Topic: Stupidity

A Canadian who was obviously retarded or otherwise mentally challenged decided to steal a loaded beer truck from a liqour store and smash it into another car a few miles away while consuming the frothy lager in the back.  After deciding to save a bunch of money on his car insurance by fleeing the scene of the accident, police used a sophisticated tracking method to find the thief.

Edmonton police spokeswoman Karen Carlson said the dog and its handler followed a trail of discarded beer, a cooler, a hand cart and pieces of clothing to a nearby apartment building.

The genius thief was then found trying to escape the apartment by climbing up onto the porch, where he was arrested shirtless and hammered.  Gotta love the Canadian spirit; get drunk, get crashed, get drunker.

 

REUTERS via YAHOO! 


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Saturday, 7 October 2006
Sports Fan Reminder: Red River Showdown This Afternoon
Topic: Sports

Just a quick reminder to all you losers who get to sit on the couch all day Saturday and do both jack and shit while picking Fritos out of your belly button - the annual University of Texas/University of Oklahoma Red River Showdown is taking place this weekend mere blocks away from our HQ at Fair Park in Dallas, meaning that because we will, for one, not be attending the game, and two, charging people twenty bucks to park in the HoD headquarter's lot.

If you're in the Dallas area from out of town, the State Fair of Texas is going on afterwards, and then Lower Greenville will be shut down by the police so that the drunks can stumble from bar to bar without fear of getting his by a drunk behind the wheel of his douchebagmobile.

The game's at 2:30PM EST (once gain, 3:30PM for you "Easties" - ed.), so go enjoy watching amateur football at its finest.  We'll be doing something else, since we went to Texas A&M and could give two shits who wins... as long as it isn't UT.

Oh yeah, and parking at HQ is 20 bucks.  And your car is subject to being stolen at anytime.  Fair Park isn't exactly a nice neighborhood.

 

FOXSPORTS 


Posted by James at 12:05 AM CDT
Updated: Saturday, 7 October 2006 12:08 AM CDT
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Friday, 6 October 2006
Kinky Friedman Will Be Debating... The Grandma... Tonight on C-Span!
Topic: Texas Politics

For those three of you that have been reading the Heart of Darko for the past year, you know of our love for Jewish country singer turned political candidate for Texas governor Kinky Friedman.  Well, tonight is the entire world's chance to see Kinky in action, as he live debates the other independent candidate, Carol Strayhorn, who sees herself as "One Tough Grandma" which honestly is stupid.  No white grandmother can be tough.  Firm, possibly, but not tough.

Anyway, our digression now clears to the listing of television stations in the state of Texas that will be playing this momentous occasion.  The list is as follows:

WFAA-TV (Dallas), KHOU-TV (Houston), KENS-TV (San Antonio), KVUE-TV (Austin)

And for those of you reading this in your log cabin somewhere in Washington, hopefully you get cable, because if you do, then you can see Kinky rip up Granny on C-SPAN.  So watch it tonight at 7:00PM CST (8:00PM for you East Coast weirdos), and cheer on the Kinkster! 


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Thursday, 5 October 2006
Scientists Working With Animals to Bring Down Humans From the Inside! Creating "Frankenbunny" With Human and Wabbit DNA!
Topic: Animals vs. Humans

Apparently the animals involved in the multi-pronged attack against the human race have large amounts of money at their disposal, as a team of researchers and scientists are beginning to experiement with crossing bunny and human DNA to create a hybrid embryo.  If this is successful, it is only a short period of time before the six foot tall evil rabbit from Donnie Darko becomes real and eats us all.

"If we learn how to do this with animal eggs, we should be able to have more success with human eggs, and I'd much rather know that if we were going to ask women to donate eggs that we were very likely to get stem cells as a result," said Chris Shaw, at the Institute of Psychiatry.

We were unable to find the location of the Institute of Psychiatry, but are running an in-depth search on the Internet to discover where it is, so that we can go and firebomb it, possibly helping the human race survive longer against the growing army of pandas, sting rays, squirrels, otters, alligators, snakehead fish, and fish with human teeth that are attempting to bring our species to an end.

 

THISISLONDON.COM 


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Friday, 29 September 2006
Squirrels Join Giant Pandas, Chinese Pandas, Fish With Human Teeth, Gators, Sting Rays in War on Humans
Topic: Animals vs. Humans

The Heart of Darko's Animals vs. Humans series continues today as a report has surfaced from California which tells of violent squirrel attacks on people in the past months.  These unprovoked acts of violence have risen to a fever pitch in Mountain View, Cali., where a small boy was acosted by a furry rodent last week, bringing the total of attacks to a "fingers and toes" counting method.  And with the recent loss of animal expert Steve "Crocodile Hunter" Irwin at the hands of a sting ray assassin, the world is now looking for a new hero to rise up and quell this rapidly growing series of violence against humans.

Now, the city's Department of Fishing and Wildlife department has announced a counterstrike on the violent beasts, saying that they will begin trapping and destroying the rogue squirrels.  However, many wildlife scholars in the area are not so sure that this will work.

"The squirrels will be back," South Bay wildlife rehabilitator Norma Campbell said. "For every one you take out, two more will come in. It could be a never-ending project that isn't going to accomplish anything."

Strong, strange words, from undoubtedly a very odd woman.

 

NBC11.COM 


Posted by James at 4:32 PM CDT
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International Volleyball Thrives Between Mexico and US in California!
Topic: World News

International relations just got a little more informal, as the world's first game of international beach volleyball just recently took place between the United States and Mexico, with the Mex/US border fence being used as the net.

After showing up for the match, the United States quickly was able to form a team, as were the Mexicans on the other side, selecting two gentlemen named Larry and Jerry, who, despite the lack of points-keeping, fully schooled the US team of some dude and some writer from LA Weekly.

Of course, just like anything fun in America, it was soon broken up by "the man," this time in the guise of the Border Patrol, who was "friendly but firm" in his orders for the two teams to clear the area.  Good for the US though, because it sounds like we were getting our asses kicked.

 

LA WEEKLY via DEADSPIN 


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Transexuals Crash Chinese Ethnic Minority Games
Topic: Weird Shit

The Chinese Ethnic Minority Games came to a screeching halt after a group of cross-dressing transexuals kicked off mob violence throughout the games, which were meant to celebrate the athleticism of China's 55 different minority groups.  After noticing that the winning team in something called the "dragon-boat race" were composed of overly large women with adam's apples as large as their testicles, minority groups from around the country quickly turned the games into a scene of mob violence, proving that America is not the only country that hates cross-dressers.

However, coaches were still touting their athletes after the blood-shedding ended, saying that despite the fact that their women lacked balls, this did not make them any less of stellar, shat-upon minority sports nobodies.

 

REUTERS via YAHOO! 


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Tuesday, 26 September 2006
Mavs Fans Rejoice! Dirk is Here Through 2011!
Topic: Sports

Just a brief note to all your Dallas Mavericks fans out in cyberland tonight pushing your personal internet through the series of tubes; Dirk Nowitzki has signed his contract extension through the 2010-11 season, meaning that at least for the next five years, our big German isn't going anywhere!

And Mavs training camp opens in less than a week, meaning that soon you'll be able to watch Dirk, the Jet, and all the rest rip up the hardwood in a few short months.

Go Mavs!

 

FOX SPORTS 


Posted by James at 10:47 PM CDT
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Golf Legend Byron Nelson to Permanently Play 19th Hole
Topic: Dead People

Golfing hall of famer and all around legend Byron Nelson died at the ripe old age of 94 on Tuesday morning.  He was found by his wife at his wood-working bench on the back porch, after dying of natural causes.

In 1945, Nelson won a massive 11 major tournaments in a row, which is a huge achievement in any major sport.  After winning 31 of 54 tournaments from 1945-46, Nelson retired to his Texas ranch at the age of 34, proving that not only can a professional athlete have an outstanding career, but doesn't have to play into his late years to cement his name in history.

Byron Nelson's swing made golf fan's hearts flutter, and made this humble writer attempt to pick up the sport, despite the fact that we have the attention span of a ferret on crystal meth.

Rest in peace, Byron Nelson.  May your record never be broken and we hope heaven has some fantastic golf courses that you set even more records on.

 

FOX SPORTS 


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Thursday, 21 September 2006
Political Backlash Begins Against Chavez Bush Comment; Led by... Nancy Pelosi?!?
Topic: Politics

Since making the comment at the U.N. that Bush is the Devil, multiple columnists, blogs and random people have struck out at Hugo Chavez for opening his fat, dumb mouth.  And now comes the political backlash, even from odd sources, such as Democratic insane-monger Nancy Pelosi.

"Hugo Chavez fancies himself a modern day Simon Bolivar but all he is an everyday thug," House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said at a news conference, referring to Chavez' comments in a U.N. General Assembly speech on Wednesday.

"Hugo Chavez abused the privilege that he had, speaking at the United Nations," said Pelosi, a frequent Bush critic. "He demeaned himself and he demeaned Venezuela."

From the Bush side of things, there's not been any sort of word, as Condi Rice said she wouldn't even dignify Chavez's comments with a response.  We've also heard rumors that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad called Chavez and said "Damn.  You fucked up SA.  Don't call me anymore, homey." 

 

MY WAY NEWS

Posted by James at 2:10 PM CDT
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Garden Gnome Having More Fun Than Owner
Topic: Stupidity

When West Virginian Allen Snyder lost his garden gnome, at first he thought it was a simple case of thievery.  However, Snyder has been receiving multiple letters from "Gnomey," who has been traveling the country lately, and now even made it to the Pittsburg Steelers football game this past Monday.  He still seems to hold a grudge against Snyder for not taking him anywhere.

"You never took me to any games," the note said. The letter ended: "Have to go now. Boarding a plane. Now, finally, broadening my travels."

While first thoughts may turn to Travelocity's own Roaming Gnome as a culprit in the kidnapping/freeing of Gnomey, spokesmen from the company have announced that they had nothing to do with the disappearance.

"While we know that your dear friend, Gnomey, can never be replaced, we're sending the enclosed Roaming Gnome to keep you company in his absence," wrote Michelle Peluso, president and chief executive officer of Travelocity, based in Southlake, Texas. "Hopefully your friend will find his way out of trouble and back to your front yard soon, although we can't help but admire his sense of adventure and love of travel."

Enjoy your travels, Gnomey.  God knows that keeping all those goddamned pink flamingos from eating the hydrangias can be a taxing job. 

 

AP via YAHOO! NEWS 


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Updates From the U.N. - Iran Really Not Wanting the Bomb? Chavez Tries to Fix His Stupidity
Topic: World News

We were fortunate enough to catch President Bush's speech yesterday on our cell phone during a break during which he called out Iran and said that he was appointing a special official to look into Iran's nuclear, or "nucular," program.  Or both of them, if the dude has time.

Now, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has spoken as well, dropping his massively stupid rhetoric about destroying America and Israel and saying that his country's nuclear program is nothing other than peaceful and that his country has never tried and will not try to create a nuclear weapon.

This turn has also caused Saudi Arabian prince Saud al-Faisal to say that the peace process is very soon to start anew, while Venezuealan idiot in charge Hugo Chavez made his remarks more clear about what he meant when he called Bush the Devil and said he should be charged with war crimes.

"I'm not an enemy of the United States. I'm a friend of the United States ... the people of the United States," Chavez said during his speech to an audience including union organizers and professors. "They're two very different things — you the people of the United States, and the government that's installed there."

Ah, so that explains it.  Chavez has aligned himself with Iran and other countries that house terrorists because he needs support in case he angers the USA enough to blow his shit up.  So now he's attempting to backpedal his own stupid self so that he won't get caught with the backhand of American justice, which he's closely stepping up to.  As for Mahmoud and the rest of Iran, we'll believe he doesn't have nukes when the U.N. sends in inspectors who will actually do their job, unlike the previous Iraq debacle.  Other than that, we're sure it was a very exciting time to be sitting in a large room listening through a baby monitor to your translator.   

 

AP via YAHOO! NEWS 


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Friday, 15 September 2006
Researchers Finally Prove Drinking Helps Your Wallet
Topic: Embarrassment

Are you tired of people at work telling you that you drink too much at happy hours and that you're ruining your life?  Screw em.  You'll end up with more in the bank.

Researchers at San Jose State University have discovered that social drinkers become better at networking and are more apt to receive promotions and raises due to their unique "skills."

"Social drinking builds social capital," said Edward Stringham, an economics professor at San Jose State University and co-author of the study with fellow researcher Bethany Peters.

"Social drinkers are out networking, building relationships, and adding contacts to their BlackBerries that result in bigger paychecks."

While it's easy to prove that in a group of friends, the ones that drink are most likely to talk to new people (chicks - ed.), for a long time everyone assumed their worth was less because of all the money they spend on booze.  Now we drunkards can officially respond to questions of why we're drunk with a proper answer; we're trying to network... into some chick's pants.

 

AFP via YAHOO! 

 


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Grumpy Granny Gets Grabbed in Heist Gone GaGa
Topic: Stupidity

A nearly eighty-year-old woman was arrested in Chicago after her attempt to rob a bank with a toy gun backfired.  She now faces 20 years in prison for her botched attempt at crime.

According to the police report, Melvena Cooke walked into the Bank of America dressed in a long black trenchcoat and visor that said "Princess."  She told the teller that she had come from the doctor and could barely speak, so when the young lady leaned forward to hear her more closely, Granny Gun struck, weilding her plastic weapon and demanding $30,000.

However, the young lady was not scared and noticed the fakeness of said weapon, so she simply pressed the silent alarm and walked away from the old bag, who paniced and ran out of the bank, choosing to duck into a neighboring store, where she was soon discovered, mostly since she's an old lady wearing a trenchcoat and a visor that says "Princess."

Sigh.  When will old people learn?

 

MSNBC 


Posted by James at 12:08 PM CDT
Updated: Friday, 15 September 2006 12:09 PM CDT
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Thursday, 14 September 2006
Columbia Changes From coke for Coke to Guns for Guitars
Topic: Weird Shit

Columbian musical instrument manufacturer Luis Alberto Paredes has begun a brand new and totally kickass program in which he is using former guerilla AK-47s to create a new series of rosewood electric guitars.  Paredes said that every single musical axe will be made from a once-used fully automatic rifle.

"This used to hit a target at 800 meters (yards)," Paredes said holding up one of the guitars which still has a Kalashnikov rifle's distinctive, banana-shaped magazine. "Now the target will just depend on the concert stage."

Now the musician and instrument creator is working with the UN to receive decommissioned AKs which have had all of their moving parts welded together to stop him from using them on dogs, cats and his groupies.  And now musicians from across Columbia have announced that they're going to use Paredes' odd creations in a live concert that will help promote peace and possibly safe gun use, but we're only guessing about the second part of that.

 

REUTERS via YAHOO! 


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The Damn Weekly DSCC Email; Pulling Out the Big Guns as Slick Willy Comes to Bat!
Topic: Politics

We were excited and honored today when we opened our email inbox and, after sorting through the random penic enlargement, Cialis, and porn emails we apparently subscribe to, we noticed this week's DSCC email, with a special surprise; it was from President Bill Clinton himself.

Each week the Heart of Darko takes a look at the email sent by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee for extra spin, "untruths" and falsities put out by those in power in the political party.  This service is a provided free of charge.  We put ourselves in mental harm way so you don't have to.

On November 7th, Americans will make a critical choice together - will we give this Administration and the Republican Congress two more years of unfettered control over our economy, our security, and our role in the world? - We hate to say it, especially since everyone's supposed to love Slick Willy here, but isn't the economy better than it ever was under his administration?  And aren't gas prices dropping?  And hasn't terror activity in our country been almost nonexistent?  Granted, our role in the world sucks...

You all know what the Republican attack machine can do when it gets going. And they have extreme talk show hosts, the shadowy Swift Boat groups and big corporate interests to fuel their campaigns. We have you. - Actually dude, you have your own smear groups.  Moveon.org, Cindy Sheehan, everyanot-nosed college theology student.  The Republicans just have better organization and don't smoke so much pot that they can't remember what they're protesting.

The consequences of inaction are enormous. Just look around the world. From the simmering war in Iraq to the terrible genocide in Darfur, there is an urgent need for a new American leadership... -  Iraq is a fucking mess.  Darfur is our country's fault?  Really?

Here at home, the stakes are just as high. The wreckage of Katrina laid bare the precipice that 37 million Americans living in poverty cling to every day. A year later, the poverty rate hasn't dropped a bit. - And one year later, out come the Katrina references.  "Katrina; the Democrats' 9/11."  And perhaps the poverty rate hasn't dropped because those affected by the terrible weather were propely taken care of.  Just saying.

We've got terrific candidates running terrific campaigns. I know these candidates. I have campaigned with them, and I am going to campaign with them again. They are winners - Oh boy, more Willy, coming to a stump near you.  Tell us what it's like, Iowa.

 

DSCC 


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Former Texas Governor Ann Richards Rides Her Harley Straight to Heaven
Topic: Dead People

Yesterday evening saw the death of former Texas governor Ann Richards, who became nationally known for being the creator of the "make fun of a Bush" policy for the Democratic party, as well as being only the second woman elected to Governor of any state in our country's history.

Richards became known as a no bullshit type of political broad, who liked to rile up her Republican counterparts and had no problems discussing her drinking days and alcoholism from the early 1980s.  One of Ann Richards' favorite things to say was "Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels."

So take care on your eternal easy ride, Ann Richards.  You helped to usher in a new wave of politics and proved that not all politicians are boring.

 

CNN 


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Tuesday, 5 September 2006
Hillary Clinton Supported by a Jackson; Her Political Aspirations are Over
Topic: Politics

Despite Time magazine's glowing praise of Hillary Clinton as the next President of the United States (she's been on more covers than J-Lo - ed.), the junior Senator from New York might be in some big trouble with her latest endorsement.  This time it comes from another big-time jackass in the form of Janet Jackson, the boob-popping "less crazy" Jackson.

"Hillary Clinton as president -- that would be great," Jackson said in an interview with German press agency DPA Monday. "Then she could show all those people who wouldn't trust a woman with such a job."

This is from the singer who has had more awful songs than the entire early 90's grunge movement.  Get away Hillary.  Nothing good can come of this support.

 

BREITBART 


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