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Babelfish, the famed online translator, can take any paragraph of text and turn it into a laugh riot. Simply take the text, translate it from English to German to French to Dutch to Japanese and back to English. The result? Comedy gold. For example, take the first few paragraphs of this lovely prose by Bill O’Reilly and run it through the laugh machine. Here’s what you end up with:

In first class of the school of Long Island St. Brigid, the Catholic church is established and is high in either one he “the stone” being to be, including me in 60 boys, sisters which is made is praying to St. Peter. I me was 6 years old, but being the recall to do, liking St. Peter who the naturally, makes good sisters happy greatly it cannot remember many from that. Now, 50 years or more after the praying my first class, in the St. Peter’s successor America there is here, I possess complicated frame of mind concerning that. Like the American of some 1000000 Catholic follower, I was disappointed deeply with the Vatican to the scandal of pedophilia of the priest response. It was overturned with respect to the crime whose slow pope two world really is large due to the new England priest, fact of the easy work of Rome that almost was inexcusable it gave remuneration to the basic law of Bernard.

Duganz (of duganzat23.blogspot.com), Karf and I had many-a-chuckle over this. We just may be easily amused.

There is absolutely no reason that this clip from the Daily Show should be so fantastically hilarious. Actually, there is. Pure, unadulterated immaturity. This is, by far, one of the most stupid, immature sketches that TDS has ever done, but it’s also one of the funniest.

Yeah, I know. I need to grow up.

Everybody in Missoula got a taste of big-time politics today as Barack Obama came to town. My mom, the Karf and I went to the Obama rally this morning. The line was long, the speech was great, and I took a bunch of pictures. I’ve got to say, it was quite surreal to see Obama standing in Missoula of all places, after following him on the televisions and the internets for such a long time.

I’ve been an Obama fan since seeing him on Conan a long while back. And yes, while I realize that this is a great superficial reason to start liking a political figure, it’s when I first really heard the man speak. Conan asked him a question about his family and if their view of him had changed because of his recent rise to political stardom. He said something about how his family keeps him grounded, and said that they still gather around the dinner table like any other family — except he addresses his family as “My fellow Obamas….” It made me lol and then I realized… woah… did a politician just make a witty joke that wasn’t lame? It blew my mind.

Since then I’ve learned a lot more about Obama’s policies and got myself all good and informed. Two things really stuck out for me: Obama’s knowledge of and stance on tech issues and his refusal to accept PAC and lobbyist campaign contributions. I could go into more detail… but I want to show some photos!