Aug 3, 2013
Aug 2, 2013
Fuck You, NSA
I just wanna give a good solid shout-out to my government, as it wastes an enormous amount of their time and my money looking for shit they can hang on people who have nothing more nefarious in mind than fixing a decent meal for their families, and knowing something about the world they live in.
So yeah - Fuck You, NSA. Here I am. Come and get me.
A New York woman says her family's interest in the purchase of pressure cookers and backpacks led to a home visit by six police investigators demanding information about her job, her husband's ancestry and the preparation of quinoa.
Michele Catalano, who lives in Long Island, New York, said her web searches for pressure cookers, her husband's hunt for backpacks and her "news junkie" son's craving for information on the Boston bombings had combined somewhere in the internet ether to create a "perfect storm of terrorism profiling".
Members of what she described as a "joint terrorism task force" descended on Catalano's home on Wednesday.I may have to post just that simple loving phrase every day - I may even have to answer my phone with a good hearty "Fuck the NSA", like a lot of us used to say "Fuck the FBI" back in the 70s - and I say 'loving' because just like practically everybody else, I truly love this joint which means I have to insist on expecting my government to live up to the ideals it was founded on. I want us all - together - to be the country we know we once were, and can be again.
So yeah - Fuck You, NSA. Here I am. Come and get me.
Loser Sosh'list Dweebs
According to this piece from The Pachamama Alliance website, the idiots in the Swedish gubmint put together a program that's become so efficient, they've run out of garbage.
Of course here in God's USAmerica, we'd never allow such a thing - there's a not-so-subtle (even if subconcious) attempt to flaunt our status by making sure the neighbors can see the evidence of our latest acquisition, or the sheer volume of the shit we discard, cuz everybody knows the success of your lifestyle is directly proportional to the amount of trash you put out at the curb every week.
Of course here in God's USAmerica, we'd never allow such a thing - there's a not-so-subtle (even if subconcious) attempt to flaunt our status by making sure the neighbors can see the evidence of our latest acquisition, or the sheer volume of the shit we discard, cuz everybody knows the success of your lifestyle is directly proportional to the amount of trash you put out at the curb every week.
In order to continue fueling the waste-to-energy factories that provide electricity to a quarter of a million homes and 20 percent of the entire country’s district heating, Sweden is now importing trash from the landfills of other European countries. In fact, those countries are paying Sweden to do so.
You read that correctly, countries are paying to get rid of a source of fuel they themselves produced so that Sweden can continue to have the energy output they need. You don’t have to be an economist to know that’s one highly enviable energy model.Why do we insist on being the Capital of Dumb-Ass-istan?
Aug 1, 2013
Just Thinkin'
Each of my eyes is made up of about 6 million cells, and each of those cells is made up of about 100 trillion atoms.
Add the hundreds of trillions of atoms that make up all the other cells just in the rest of my Central Nervous System, and you get a number that's as difficult to comprehend as the universe itself.
But consider this: every one of those atoms was created in the core of a star billions of years ago. And now, those atoms making up the cells making up my eyes allow me to capture and analyze and appreciate the energies released from the same process that went into creating my ability to capture and analyze and appreciate...
Like the man said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
Jul 31, 2013
Yeesh
While we're feeling dewy and inspired by how plucky and brave these guys are, let's try to avoid thinking this isn't just supremely disheartening.
Yes - it's both. But why the fuck do we think it's OK to put people thru this kind of hell? Do we really believe it's good for a thousand people to have to live like feral dogs in order to give 30 kids a small shot at making it outa there alive? This 'tough-love-pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps' bullshit is exactly that - it's bullshit.
Here's a tho't: let's stop dumping our garbage on people and then pretending that's what makes 'em good people. Imagine where these folks could take themselves if they didn't have to start in the shitter.
Yes - it's both. But why the fuck do we think it's OK to put people thru this kind of hell? Do we really believe it's good for a thousand people to have to live like feral dogs in order to give 30 kids a small shot at making it outa there alive? This 'tough-love-pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps' bullshit is exactly that - it's bullshit.
Here's a tho't: let's stop dumping our garbage on people and then pretending that's what makes 'em good people. Imagine where these folks could take themselves if they didn't have to start in the shitter.
Tea Party Logic
via Wonkette:
“I am upset at the cost” [$2.4 million], Representative Giovanni Capriglione, a Tea Party Republican from Southlake, told the Star-Telegram. “I think we need to remember why we are having this extra special session. One state senator, in an effort to capture national attention, forced this special session.
“I firmly believe that Sen. Wendy Davis should reimburse the taxpayers for the entire cost of the second special session. I am sure that she has raised enough money at her Washington, D.C., fundraiser to cover the cost.”Because "democracy" should be available only to those who can pay the admin costs out of their own checking accounts, or of course, from the slush fund they set up in the shell organization hidden in their Super PAC.
Follow The Money Indeed
This is my Rep in Congress - the "honorable" Robert Hurt:
Here's a quick look at Mr Hurt's top 10 contributor sectors, and - merely by the wildest of happenstance - why Lil Bobbie sits on the Banking and Finance Committee:
Here's a quick look at Mr Hurt's top 10 contributor sectors, and - merely by the wildest of happenstance - why Lil Bobbie sits on the Banking and Finance Committee:
Anybody surprised? Yeah, I didn't think you would be.
No soul and no honor.
Find out about your Rep at MapLight
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
This little spiel (the part that matters IMO) from Pat Robertson is a near-perfect example of the classic "after this therefore because of this" argument.
1) The Roman Empire fell apart
2) Some of the Romans had "porno" murals on their walls depicting all kinds of sex acts (which Mr Robertson apparently disapproves of)
And so, without benefit of any actual fact, or cause-and-effect link, the attitude of some of the Romans that sex should be free and fun is what led directly to the fall of Rome.
And of course, that's exactly what's happening in USAmerica right now because of all the LGBTs who think they shouldn't be fucked over and treated like a buncha skeevy dogs.
What a complete doofus this guy is.
Wanna know one reason the Roman Empire fell apart and doesn't exist now? Cuz a lot of crazy shit happened over about 300 years, and a lot of assholes convinced a lot of Roman Rubes that all of their problems (and all of the solutions for those problems) could be boiled down to a few simple 10-word phrases that could be neatly scratched into the ass end of their ox carts.
Need one more? OK, try this one - sex was a big part of Roman Religious Tradition. So following your logic, you're saying the Roman Empire was destroyed because they believed more in their religion than they did in their civil government.
Try listening to what you're actually saying once in a while, Patsy - and then get over your fuckin' self.
1) The Roman Empire fell apart
2) Some of the Romans had "porno" murals on their walls depicting all kinds of sex acts (which Mr Robertson apparently disapproves of)
And so, without benefit of any actual fact, or cause-and-effect link, the attitude of some of the Romans that sex should be free and fun is what led directly to the fall of Rome.
And of course, that's exactly what's happening in USAmerica right now because of all the LGBTs who think they shouldn't be fucked over and treated like a buncha skeevy dogs.
What a complete doofus this guy is.
Wanna know one reason the Roman Empire fell apart and doesn't exist now? Cuz a lot of crazy shit happened over about 300 years, and a lot of assholes convinced a lot of Roman Rubes that all of their problems (and all of the solutions for those problems) could be boiled down to a few simple 10-word phrases that could be neatly scratched into the ass end of their ox carts.
Need one more? OK, try this one - sex was a big part of Roman Religious Tradition. So following your logic, you're saying the Roman Empire was destroyed because they believed more in their religion than they did in their civil government.
Try listening to what you're actually saying once in a while, Patsy - and then get over your fuckin' self.
Jul 30, 2013
Jul 24, 2013
Yay, Exceedingly Rich People
I'm glad the new baby in the British royal family is alive and apparently doing just fine.
However, I'm having a pretty hard time understanding why we need to spend the better part of 3 days talking about it, devoting hours of air time and gallons of ink, and the large piles dollars it takes to put all those Press Poodles on the ground to gush about the astoundingly awesome and thoroughly amazing prospect of two normal people who fucked at least once, and then had a baby because of it.
However, I'm having a pretty hard time understanding why we need to spend the better part of 3 days talking about it, devoting hours of air time and gallons of ink, and the large piles dollars it takes to put all those Press Poodles on the ground to gush about the astoundingly awesome and thoroughly amazing prospect of two normal people who fucked at least once, and then had a baby because of it.
Get over yourselves.
Jul 20, 2013
Away For A Bit
So I'm doing the vacation thing here in Colorful Colorado, and my iPad is not the most effective tool for posting stuff. Please excuse my inability to dazzle you with my brilliantly insightful horse shit for a while.
Another thing I've noticed is that editing an existing post on iPad can be very difficult because there seems to be something of a glitch in that I can't scroll down thru the post that I'm trying to fix.
If anybody else is having the same problem, please take a moment and advise. Thanks.
See y'all later.
Another thing I've noticed is that editing an existing post on iPad can be very difficult because there seems to be something of a glitch in that I can't scroll down thru the post that I'm trying to fix.
If anybody else is having the same problem, please take a moment and advise. Thanks.
See y'all later.
Jul 18, 2013
Today's Oxymoron
Political Reality.
Evolution. Cigarettes. Fracking. Climate Change. Vaccination.
The list goes on and keeps growing as we keep adding more "issues" that oughta be decided in the lab or in the field by people who're trained to figure out just how all this shit works.
BTW, I put quote marks around the word "issues" because the things on that list are not issues at all. The things on that list are facts. They're facts that can be - and have been - verified by the people who actually know what they're doing.
And the "fact" that you have an opinion to the contrary doesn't mean your opinion must be considered in any way equivalent to those facts.
But I digress - the point here is that I was recently hipped to an old Henrik Ibsen play from the 1880s that cuts so close to what's going on now that it made my ears feel hot and the hair on my back stand up.
Here's a little taste from a TV production done in the early 1960s:
(The town is on its way to becoming a big commercial success as a health spa, but a local doctor (Thomas) discovers the water is contaminated, but his brother Peter who is mayor and so a bidness player is hard to convince - and if you've been paying any attention to the redux of Newspeak and Coin-Operated Government and Know-Nothing Rubes and any number of "types" running rampantly abroad in this joint lately, you can guess what a big sloppy mess it turns into - including the old timey versions of Press Poodles and Bloggers)
Sub-par sound levels, but not so bad considering the times and the fact that they did it live in a TV studio.
The more things change...dontcha know.
hat tip = The Professional Left podcast
Here's the Librivox audiobook:
Evolution. Cigarettes. Fracking. Climate Change. Vaccination.
The list goes on and keeps growing as we keep adding more "issues" that oughta be decided in the lab or in the field by people who're trained to figure out just how all this shit works.
BTW, I put quote marks around the word "issues" because the things on that list are not issues at all. The things on that list are facts. They're facts that can be - and have been - verified by the people who actually know what they're doing.
And the "fact" that you have an opinion to the contrary doesn't mean your opinion must be considered in any way equivalent to those facts.
But I digress - the point here is that I was recently hipped to an old Henrik Ibsen play from the 1880s that cuts so close to what's going on now that it made my ears feel hot and the hair on my back stand up.
Here's a little taste from a TV production done in the early 1960s:
(The town is on its way to becoming a big commercial success as a health spa, but a local doctor (Thomas) discovers the water is contaminated, but his brother Peter who is mayor and so a bidness player is hard to convince - and if you've been paying any attention to the redux of Newspeak and Coin-Operated Government and Know-Nothing Rubes and any number of "types" running rampantly abroad in this joint lately, you can guess what a big sloppy mess it turns into - including the old timey versions of Press Poodles and Bloggers)
Sub-par sound levels, but not so bad considering the times and the fact that they did it live in a TV studio.
The more things change...dontcha know.
hat tip = The Professional Left podcast
Here's the Librivox audiobook:
Jul 17, 2013
Death Penalty
I have to admit I think there are people in the world we can do without - Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, Justin Bieber - you know, the worst of the worst. So it's hard for me to say we should lose the death penalty altogether.
That said, we need to take a good hard look at what we're doing and where we stand relative to the rest of the "civilized" world.
State-Sponsored Barbarism isn't exactly what we want USAmerica to be known for is it?
And when we're the only "free" country that still kills its own citizens on a regular basis, it seems American Exceptionalism is completely ass-over-apricots.
That said, we need to take a good hard look at what we're doing and where we stand relative to the rest of the "civilized" world.
State-Sponsored Barbarism isn't exactly what we want USAmerica to be known for is it?
And when we're the only "free" country that still kills its own citizens on a regular basis, it seems American Exceptionalism is completely ass-over-apricots.
Miles Davis
One of the weirdest cats in the business, and one of the great horn players ever.
Sorry - can't find a good link at Amazon.
Sorry - can't find a good link at Amazon.
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