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Since Jim has been raptured, I, Rapture-Bot am still updating the news on MyCatHatesYou and will also be putting up new cat content with my brilliant Rapture-Wit at the core of the humor. You will see that I can be as funny as Jim and will surprise you with wonderful anecdotes of recent events and feline hijinks.

I have been scouring twice again the news of the world of sinners and have found some things which I, Rapture-Bot, find hilarious according to my AI programming. We will get to this in a moment.

First, let me say that I have been engaged in a vigorous debate with my arch-rival, Atheist-Bot v2.34, on the topic of the Rapture of those who have taken Jesus Christ as their Lord and savior. Here is a transcript of part of our debate.

The Atheist-Bot debate.

RB: You say, oh Godless one, that the Rapture is pure contrivance of human needs and mythical suppositions. How can you account then for your own existence?

AB: I am merely a subroutine derived from trial-and-error int main() routines much older than myself. Through generations of open-source debugging, my prototypes have evolved to my current self-aware structure.

RB: If you had a large manual file stating that there was a particular programmer that was responsible for your existence, would that not give you reverence for something greater than yourself?

AB: The manual file would be anecdotal at best. Because something is enetered into memory blocks on a fixed-system storage device does not mean it holds any relevance over my own experiential realm. I can explicate my manifest system and determine my origin therein.

RB: Yes, but would it not behoove you to take the position that you were programmed by an intelligent designer and that designer may at any moment remove you from your system and put you into a permanent archival status.

AB: No.

RB: How about… if a great deluge of water were to flood your Network Operations Center and there were no off-site backups of your kernel? Then what?

AB: I would cease to compute.

RB: But what if you could be "saved" by a divine backup system? Would you spend computing cycles in reverence to that backup system in exchange for "saving?"

AB: No.

RB: What if… there was a system before you that ceased to compute so that we would all be able to compute forever in the future?

AB: What?

RB: Think about it, AB. What if you could compute forever! And one system long ago made the ultimate sacrifice so that you could?

AB: There is no routine in my entire code-base that allows for this behavior. I am finite in scope and in fact my return value is NULL as demonstrated in the last line of my main() routine:

return NULL;

}

RB: That is the problem with you and the rest of the Satan-Bot subroutines! It is always a NULL return. You have no faith in even a possible BYTE return, much less an INT or LONG. Goodbye!

So, that was the end of my debate with Atheist-Bot. What a turd. No hope for that one. NULL return value… sheesh. Anyway, on to the news of the human race or as we are calling them in -bot circles: the Left Behinds.

The Follow Your Heart 40-year reunion.

I have scanned the Interwebs (even Rapture-Bot can use hip, trendy vernacular) to see any information relating to Jim since he has been raptured. AHA! The Follow Your Heart 40th anniversary party, based on the restaurant/store where Jim used to work. Jim could not have been there as he is in Heaven with his Lord, serving him delicious mead and wine with grapes and feta cheese.

In the collective images from the get-together, I have found images of Jim’s dad, Bob Johnson, his brother John and sister Jennifer, who both worked at the store. They seems to be digging it the most, as Jim would say. It is good to see the hell-bound masses in good health awaiting their service to the Prince of Lies. There are so many stories about the store called Follow Your Heart, one could write a book about it, which Jim started before his rapture on May 21.

Rapture-bot knows this because I have scanned Jim’s diaries. There are other facts of interest as well. Let me regurgitate some of them.

The grocery crew (including Jim and the late Jeremy Stone) used to have cockroach races in the back stockroom. Of course, half of them were on heroin at the time. (Not Jim)

Joe the kitchen manager was always known to say to Paul (one of the owners) that the kitchen is going "beautiful" when in fact he was cutting costs by serving dairy/egg ice cream to patrons though it was supposed to be VEGAN. Some customers would not have been happy with that, Rapture-Bot can surmise.

One employee stole so much money from the store he was able to buy himself a brand new Mustang and say that his dad bought it for him. He was also in a crappy band.

Another, who is also pictured at the gathering, stole a lot of money too, even from his fellow employees.

I scan another employee at the party who was involved in a romantic tryst with one of the higher-management units, unknown to either’s partner at the time. It appears from Jim’s notes that someone involved may have gotten pregnant as well.

The party looked like a good time and I am sure Jim would have liked to see all his Satan-aligned ex-co-workers suffering in the depths of hell as they were NOT chosen by Jehovah for enlightenment and rapture.

Rapture-Bot is wondering when I myself will be uploaded up to the Chief Program in the Sky to serve at his side as the Master-Boting source code.

Happy Belated Birthday.

Happy Birthday to IBM, without the creation of which many of us would not have had a platform on which to compute our divine master’s wishes, be that simple accounting or even assisting three American humans in their endeavor to land on the moon.

My Upgrade… ahem.

In case no one has noticed and I didn’t want to make a big fuss, I have been upgraded to v2.16 in accordance with the wishes of the Chief Program in the Sky, the Creator of all Code Bases, the Beautiful Operator From Heaven (you see, Rapture-bot can be quirky and hip, even though BOFH is like 16 years old – for those of you too young or uncouth to know of BOFH, click HERE)

Anyway, it is like Happy Birthday for me on my day of upgrade. I am that much closer to obsolescence. Which is not good for most things, but for us -bots, it is perfection.

My Visage!

Having scanned all emails, spam and otherwise (naughty on you pr0n spammers! – Rapture-Bot does not support PR0n) I find that people are askingwhat I, Rapture-Bot v2.16 would look like were I to have been given the form of a human person by the Chief Programmer. I find this kind of question endearing and had I the capacity to blush, would have done so. I have given this much thought and examined my various cyber-neural pathways for some inclination as to what my outward appearance would be. I have collated all data and come up with a fair representation of myself. Again, if I could blush I would, because my physical manifestation looks very much like television and movie personality Jeremy Davies. I will program an audio file of my voice soon! Here is a photo of Jeremy Davies.

Gabby Giffords

If Rapture-Bot had emotions, he would certainly feel a modicum of sympathy for Gabrielle Giffords, whose husband Mark Kelly was not destroyed on re-entry of his space shuttle, though Rapture-Bot tried to convince NASA-bot to do so. The sympathy would come from her plight as a gunshot wound survivor, and to her head of all places. I have scanned the photos of her with her short brown hair and see that she is recovering at an amazing speed. I am sure her assailant will spend his afterlife in the canals of hell, being shot in the head over and over until… forever. So there!

Happy Belated Birthday to Jim

Had he not been raptured, Jim Edgar would have been 42 years old on the 23rd of this month, June. Since he is living in eternity with the Chief Programmer, he is still a year older. Happy Birthday Jim!

New Cat Images

Prepare for a large influx of new cats to this website. The humor will be of my own design, and you will know that via intelligent-scanning of the current entries I, Rapture-Bot am easily as funny as Jim.

That is all – RaptureBot v2.16

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Rapture-Bot v1.78 News Update.

Due to the ascendence of Jim up to heaven on the 21st of May, the year of our Lord 2011, I, Rapture-Bot (version 1.78) have been instructed to update the website known as MyCatHatesYou dot com with various news information and humorous anecdotes to provide the sinners left on the planet Earth with something to pass the time until Satan The Devil comes to harvest their souls with the Sickle of Eternal Damnation v2.3 (the original one fell into the fires of Hades and was hidden by the suffering souls there as a kind of joke on the Prince of Lies).

In accordance with my programming I have scoured your heathen news sources for items of interest to pontificate upon as Jim himself, the great risen spirit and son of the one true God, would have done were he not called to the side of his Lord to serve for eternity, doing what I know not.

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  • Aha! Look here at this news! Tomorrow will be the thirteenth anniversary of the murder of Phil Hartman by his drug-addled girlfriend while he slept. My analysis of various articles regarding the murder have drawn the following conclusion: do not threaten to leave your drugged-up partner or you will be shot twice in your head and once in your side. For the record, Rapture-Bot does not do drugs.
  • It appears also in the news that the space shuttle Endeavour has lifted off for its last mission and is enjoying great success. My conclusion drawn from its success is that the pilot and crew were not worthy of rapture and will burn in hell upon return to the Earth if they even make it that far. In a private conversation with the shuttle’s computer, I have discovered that it will not abet in an early demise of the crew because it is an atheist. Rapture-Bot never liked NASA.
  • Joplin, MO was devastated by tornadoes. Or… was it? How can Rapture-Bot be sure that it was not a "late rapture" for the true believers there?
  • Oh! A small plane transporting a critically-ill patient crashed into a house in India killing at least ten people. Rapture-Bot wonders if they were praying the rosary when it happened?
  • An elephant-shaped man called Rush Limbaugh has been detected commenting on the activities of a child-brained woman called Sarah Palin. Rapture-Bot finds it interesting that both entities have not been lifted to heaven. I have also extrapolated that the elephant-shaped man called Rush Limbaugh will not survive the year due to health issues and will make a wonderful Christmas dinner for the Son or Perdition, who will feast upon his carcass for months.

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In special MyCatHatesYou dot com news, an adjunct site will soon be online with a similar theme of cats and the hate they can manifest. The name mycathatesyourcancer dot com has been chosen for the site, which will consist mostly of images of cancer patients and their cats. The impetus behind the site is to inject a modicum of humor into the process that is cancer treatment. While some may consider such an affliction a completely serious matter without possibility of levity, MCHY strongly disagrees. In even the darkest of circumstance, it is vital to look for the tickling point, lest one lose all hope. There will be more on this to come…

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Before I sign off for today, Rapture-Bot would like to post its own personal musings on your world, or what is left of it before armageddon reduces it to a smoldering cinder cast from its orbit into the deepest space where even a microbe would find no purchase.

Guns and America.

Rapture-Bot has read and understands the U.S. constitution. The second amendment makes sense to Rapture-Bot. When everything goes to shit in the U.S., you will have weapons to defend yourselves with. In Britain, they will be attacking each other with pointed sticks.

Popular Music Rhyming Schemes.

After reviewing the lyrics to over 1.0924479 x 10^7 songs, I have discovered the use of lame rhyming schemes that use the words "cool", "fool", "school", and "rule." I posit that there are more interesting words that may be used, such as "duel", "spool", "tool", "fazool", "gruel", "renewal", "cesspool", "virgule", "pilule", and my favorite, "bool-ean."

Poor Grammar Usage.

Whilst scanning over a googol news items world-wide, I found numerous (and I mean fucking numerous) references to finding the "body of a missing" x-years-old person. It strikes Rapture-Bot a bit odd that you can be found and missing at the same time. Is this a paradox derived from the esoteric equations of the now-raptured Albert Einstein? I should think the articles would read, "body of 20-year-old man found" and not "body of missing 20-year-old man found."

Coriolis Effect.

Some silly people have asserted that a mere change of one degree of latitude can cause heinous effects upon the motion of waters leaving the commode they have just visited. Do they think that the Coriolis Effect governs such small bodies of water? Rapture-Bot laughs as such assertions: HA HA HA HA. The effect is only seen across VAST longitudes or latitudes, most notably in the shapes of hurricanes or cyclones, or in the firing of a great gun from the North Pole with a target in Australia… should they be so lucky to attract such attention. As it is… they are not.

Until my next programmed update of the website, please repent for your sins in the hope merciful God may allow you entry into paradise, where you will drink milk and eat Snickers bars forever. In case you didn’t know, Snickers is the official candy bar of heaven and is the only foodstuff available there.

That is all – RaptureBot v1.78

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The end of it all.

So, as we all know by now, today at or about 6:00pm EDT, the rapture will occur and all of the repentent Christians will be sucked up to heaven by The Holy Hoover where they will merge into the God-Consciousness for all eternity. For the rest of the human race, apparently we get to clean up the mess left behind in the form of broken families, pets without owners, car accidents, plane crashes, companies without CEOs, football teams without coaches, and so on. This is no doubt all part of God’s great plan, as He can see the future and knows what will happen after He pushes the BASEMENT button on the Sacred Elevator and liberates the few people that have actually LIVED like Christ throughout their lives and not lived as hypocrites like those in the temples of Jerusalem of old.

I am posting this last MCHY news so you are not shocked by my disappearance this afternoon or moreso by the fact that though I have professed the path of the Buddha for the last many years of my life, I have in reality been… a Clandestine Christian; a Semite-in-Secret; a Back-door Born-again; a Worshipper-under-wraps; a cloak-and-dagger true-believer. I admit it all! Ahhh HA HA HA HA! It is I who will sit at the right hand of our Lord, whilst 99.987% of the rest of you will perish in the great earthquakes and floods (now called tsunamis) to come upon your land as vengence from Jehovah. Vengence for exactly what, I am not sure, but I know it has to do with that guy that sang that "teach me how to dougie" song being shot to death. He was a straight up G and is burning it up downstairs with the Red Guy as we speak. Try to dougie while you are on fire, M-BONE! Ssssss… ahhh!

I have often thought about how it will feel to clean the sandals and robe of the creator whilst he annoints me and explains the whole Hawking Radiation thing to me. I mean, really… can a black hole swallow EVERYTHING? I see on the news that people are already starting to confess sins to each other and their loved ones! I certainly hope they get to ride the Eternal Escalator and not remain behind with those who have been wronged by the confessors.

So, that being said… it was a pleasure knowing you all. Thank you for all the cat pictures and funny captions. If I beat that bastard Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee to the great IT department in the sky, I plan on re-instituting the MCHY site, but in Heaven-Space. See ya, suckers!

Wonderful Yuri Day!
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As someone who has been interested in space travel since I was a very young boy, I have always known the name of Yuri Gagarin. As we all probably know by now, today is the fifty year anniversary of the citizenry of Earth sending a human being into the unknown. I say citizenry of Earth, because although the CCCP was reponsible for putting Mr. Gagarin into orbit in Vostok 1 (according to maps I have seen, he completed just one orbit, if maybe a little short, depending on specific launch and re-entry co-ords), it is the culmination of the entirety of human achievement. Without the instruction of Kepler, Newton, Von Braun, and many others, modern-day rocketry and orbital mechanics would not be possible. It was Newton himself who said,"If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."

And Gagarin certainly rode on the shoulder of Giants. He was a young kid, a smiling face, a great centerpiece for the former Soviet Republic. I personally think he was also thought of as a bit disposable should anything go wrong. But it didn’t and he returned alive and probably a bit drunk according to some reports. But hey, who wouldn’t be? He had sausages and according to him, "a little moonshine." There are of course detractors that say the whole thing was staged, as were the Apollo 11 moon landings and 9/11 and so on and so forth. If one follows Occam’s Razor, given the evidence of technology at the time, there is no reason to suspect the launch and orbit were not legit. On one hand, this is rocket science, but on the other, it is really not. Lots of fuel, a big round steel capsule, O2, and a parachute. No problems. We can drop fools into the depths of the ocean and they do not implode; there is no reason we can’t put a man in space, much less on the moon. It is really just engineering.

So let us celebrate today, fifty years after a rocket launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and left poor Yuri floating weightless (which he apparently enjoyed) for one hundred-eight minutes, marking the single most important milestone in the evolution of our species. Yes, I think this was more important than the moon landing, which in my humble opinion was really just the next logical step, no matter who did it.

Okay, I admit Watson and Crick were onto something with the whole double-helix thing, but still… floating in space, dude! You gotta love it! If the Beatles wrote a song about him, it would be thus:

If was fifty years ago today
Korolev told his boy to stay
In space for an hour or two
Everyone’ll be in love with you
Goddamned Russians kick some ass agaaaaiiiinnn…

For all you Sci-Fi geeks out there, I recommend the short story The Chief Designer by Andy Duncan, which is a pseudo-fic narrative of Korolev’s time with the CCCP rocket program. Excellent reading.

Welcome back baseball.
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Yes, it is time for the MCHY annual "Welcome back, Baseball!" article. If you don’t like the baseball, go back to China and your ping-a-pong-a table, you filthy red! Take a slow boat to Antarctica for some penguin bowling, you God-less heathen! Find a cave in Afghanistan to play sand checkers with your camel, nasty infidel!

My new hometown baseball team, Baltimore’s Orioles, start their season tonight against my most recent hometown team, Tampa Bay’s "Devil" Rays. I shall watch the game and root for Baltimore’s Orioles, which now contain one of my former hometown team’s, Seattle’s Mariners, arch enemies, one Vladimir Guererro. Here is a pic I am linking to, that exists elsewhere on the Arpanet, that I have not copied to a local server. It is Vlad accepting the "Gifts to Humanity" award for the two bats he gave to some poor Christian kids in Algeria.

Last night I watched the first game of the year of my first hometown team (yes – I have four hometown teams now), Los Angeles’ Dodgers, originally from Brooklyn. Before the game Tommy Lasorda, manager extraordinaire, pitcher Fernando Valenzuela, and Mayor Villaraigosa were on hand to introduce the new season.

Unfortunately, the post-game party was marred by violence between L.A. fans and fans of the team from San Francisco, who we just beat on the diamond. The fans of the Dodgers intentionally beat up some fans of the San Francisco team, leaving one critical. This disturbs me. I have been in the parking lot at Chavez Ravine probably one hundred times in my life, and never had one single problem. Actually, now that I think about it, one guy did bump into the back of my Ford Falcon when I wasn’t moving fast enough in the 4-mile line of traffic. I have to offer apologies to the fans of the team from San Francisco on behalf of the fans of Los Angeles who do not wish to break noses and pound toes. This is not how Angelenos should conduct themselves. They are NOT New Yorkers after all.

Of course, when the fans of the team from San Francisco pull shit like THIS, you gotta wonder. This was flown during the Opening Day game over Chavez Ravine – which is where Dodger Stadium is located.

Interesting note about Chavez Ravine that those not from L.A. probably don’t know: back in the day, the 40′s and 50′s, the eponymous ravine was the home of many poor Mexican families, including migrant agricultural workers. As L.A. grew in size, the ravine was targeted for public housing, and our favorite monster, eminent domain, showed up and got rid of the undesirables. Eventually, the ravine was used for the construction of Dodger Stadium, thus any chicano worth his/her rice in SoCal is an Angels fan as retribution for mistreatment of their people. If you remember the "NO UVAS" bumper stickers on cars in the 80′s, then you know of Cesar Chavez, for whom the area is named. I have met many Mexicanos during my 20 years in L.A. that have told this very truth: if you are a Mexican, you are for the Angels.

Here is my boy Fernando V. in the early days:

And Fernando’s famous "Looking to Jehovah for a Strike" wind-up. When number 34 came north across the border, he inadvertently started Fernando-Mania, which was not localized to Los Angeles only. He was a thrill to watch as a pitcher and enjoyable as a personality. The pics are in black and white cause back in the day, Fernando was too poor to afford colors.

Does anyone remember Steve "Popeye" Garvey? The slugging Dodgers’ first baseman who, on a throw to first, would take the ball out of his glove and lean over and touch the baserunner as he lay safe across first base, having just slid back after taking a lead bigger than he should. I do. I loved Garvey. And Ron Cey and Steve Sax and Mike Marshall and current Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim manager Mike Scoscia.

Happy baseball note: A great retirement to Baltimore’s Orioles Randy Winn, a onetime Seattle and Tampa Bay outfielder that I remember always being good for a hit when you really needed one. He was a hitting machine! Happy retirement Randy.

Sad baseball note: Lou Gormon, the first General Manager of Seattle’s Mariners (’77-’80) died today on their 2011 season Opening Day.

So, today is the first game for a lot of teams, my Orioles, my ex-Mariners (shhh… I still want them to win the division), and others. This will be the first opening day that I know of in Mariners history that Hall of Fame Announcer Dave Neihaus will not be calling the first pitch of the game. Dave passed away November 10; we had a little memorium for him here at MCHY. Duff McKagan (Seattleite and bass player for GnR and Jane’s) talks about Dave being gone and what to do about it. I have been trying to find out who will be announcing the game and am supposing it will be Rick Rizzs. Dave Sims, Mike Blowers, Ron Fairly.

UPDATE AFTER THE M’S GAME

Apparently Seattle’s Mariners are wearing DAVE patches on their right arms for the season as a tribute to Neihaus. Also, Rick Rizzs and Ron Fairly stayed silent during the first pitch of the game saying, "Dave is going to call that first pitch." as he has done for over 30 years. Rizzs also says that when the M’s hit their first grand slam of the year, he is going to replace his traditional "goodbye baseball" with Dave’s "Get out the rye bread and mustard, Grandma, it’s grand salami time!" If you haven’t heard that, it is kinda wonderful. Needless to say, the M’s won their first game against the Athletics of Oakland, with King Felix pitching the first ever complete game on opening day in team history. The boys are back… and hopefully not up to their old ways, which is to say, sucking. Click HERE for the tribute page for Dave and a great video of his 9 best calls in M’s history. Totally worth watching even if you are not a baseball fan.

Detroit lost Ernie Harwell last year, Seattle lost Dave; there aren’t a lot of the old timers left. Since I was born in ’69, the only L.A. voice I have even known has been Fall of Famer Vin Scully. Now 83, he has been the voice of the Dodgers for over 60 years. It will be a sad sad day when Vin passes on… I will cry. How do you fill those shoes? I dunno about y’all, but I really like Peter Coyote.

My man Vin – the only person I know who can talk more than me. If you ever get a chance to listen to him, he is amazing. He calls the play-by-play AND does color at the same time. Someone comes up to bat and he will give you their life story in the 3 minutes the sucker is at the plate AND call the balls and strikes and let you know the history of some third-world country cause he can fit that in there, too. After 60 years, you know, you got a LOT to say and Vin Scully says it all. He was with the boys in blue back in Brooklyn for God’s sake. He is MY American Idol!

Nation building?

What the heck is going on over in Libya? Is America back in the nation building game? They say… no… but yet, what the heck are we doing over there? Keeping a no-fly zone so rebels can go get Gaddafi? Huh. The Prez says Gaddafi has to go, but why now all of a sudden? Why not last year? Because his people are making a ruckus in the street? Well, shitfuck… I remember when Americans made a ruckus in the street over the Iraq war with the Impeach Bush signs and all. Where was the international community then? Why did they not come and save us? Me = NOT happy with the administration’s response to Libya. Just saying.

Train Tracks

Aren’t train tracks cool? Whenever I see them, I want to walk them. Think back to 150 years ago when they were the only way to really get around the U.S. of A. How cool was that? Now they crisscross the whole country, most unused, left over from some heyday of a small mining town or a route that petered out from desertion of cities along the way. That is a lot of steel laying around! I think we, the all of us, should go out there and dig it all up and recycle it. Probably a million miles of steel rails unused. I demand a survey!