Friday, October 02, 2015
Today's Trevor
Interesting that he gives us a peek at ourselves from the outside - pointing out that we're maybe a little too much like those other joints to be walkin' around thumping our chest trying to tell everybody how "exceptional" we are.
Thursday, October 01, 2015
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Monday, September 28, 2015
Today In Stoopid
The Super Blood Moon got some folks pretty spooked, I guess:
But then I remember this is all part of the big bamboozle anyway, so it's just the cost of doin' bidness.
These particular believers are so thoroughly hornswoggled they're wearing magic underwear. So I'm thinking it comes as no surprise to church execs when they hear the faithful are willing to buy into some bullshit about the moon. And of course it's easily debunkable, but why would the rubes not believe it when they've been very well taught to be totally committed to staying ignorant and superstitious?
Satan's greatest trick was convincing us that the people who insist that Satan exists will deal honestly with us if we just give them enough money.
The AP said it’s unclear how many Mormons are buying into the end-of-the-world prophecy, but leaders of the church were concerned enough to issue the statement assuring them that the world is not about to end.
Preparedness is one of the tenets of the Mormon faith, which believes that a period of disasters and tribulations will precede the second coming of Jesus Christ. Many Mormon-built homes in Utah and other southwestern states feature special built-in shelves for rice, flour, canned goods and other nonperishable supplies.
The pronouncement by the church, said Patrick Mason — chair of Mormon studies at Claremont Graduate University in California — indicates that fear of the End Times must be fairly pervasive among Mormon families if church elders felt the need to address it.
“For it to filter up to that level and for them to decide to send out a policy letter means that they felt there was something they needed to tamp down on,” said Mason.Sometimes I wonder why you'd spend time or effort telling these pea-brains to get ready for the shit when ya gotta know you'll have to talk 'em down off the ledge when they get all worked up and thinking the shit you've been "warning" them about is here and real and happening.
But then I remember this is all part of the big bamboozle anyway, so it's just the cost of doin' bidness.
These particular believers are so thoroughly hornswoggled they're wearing magic underwear. So I'm thinking it comes as no surprise to church execs when they hear the faithful are willing to buy into some bullshit about the moon. And of course it's easily debunkable, but why would the rubes not believe it when they've been very well taught to be totally committed to staying ignorant and superstitious?
Satan's greatest trick was convincing us that the people who insist that Satan exists will deal honestly with us if we just give them enough money.
And I don't really have to make this last little connection for anybody, right?
Sunday, September 27, 2015
Saturday, September 26, 2015
Thursday, September 24, 2015
Uh-Oh (re-try)
2nd attempt. And I'll try to quell that shitty feeling I always get in my gut when I try to post something about this kinda stuff and it fails due to "tech problems" at Google or whatever.
Anyway, via Charlie Pierce:
Anyway, via Charlie Pierce:
The mathematician wanted to examine the voting tapes after something didn't add up. Clarkson explained, "I don't understand why those patterns are there, the patterns are very definitely real. But we don't know what's causing them or why they're there. They do fit what would be expected if election fraud is occurring, and that's very concerning." In Sedgwick County, the voting tapes record every stroke a voter makes on the machine. The Election Commissioner there said the tapes are 385 feet long and are stored in 42 boxes. However, in Johnson County, voting is done primarily on electronic machines where there is no automatic paper trail. They're machines which Clarkson said can be easily hacked.Smoke doesn't always mean fire - sometimes it looks like smoke when it's actually just a little ground fog after a rain or some bugbrain trying to prove something with his new Vape thingie or whatever. This looks a whole lot like a whole lotta smoke.
Mellow Morning
Morning Aire --Tommy Emmanuel
Jesus, Joy Of Man's Desiring --Leo Kotkke
Waiting --Calum Graham & Don Ross
Dawgmatism --David Grisman
Jesus, Joy Of Man's Desiring --Leo Kotkke
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Today's Quote 2
"You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours." --Yogi BerraYou don't have to be a baseball fan to love a guy like Yogi.
Today's Quote
"Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. Let men work and love and fight it off." --Jack Kerouac, Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Call It A Win
She's headed for a jail cell, at least temporarily, but the fact she survived the initial encounter - plus the simple fact there was a good buncha witnesses - just might combine to make it more likely she'll stay alive thru the rest of her ordeal.
And that could mean that whoever's next stands a tiny bit better chance of being treated a tiny bit better as well.
Watchfulness and locks help honest people stay honest. Transparency and citizen oversight help good cops stay good.
hat tip = AlterNet
Today's Tweet
Da Donald's social media squad decided to try a Twitter Interview, and (as happens pretty much every fucking time) they got some questions that were prob'ly not quite what they were looking for. This one's the best I've seen so far:
I'm gonna make a radical assumption here, and say there's prob'ly a coupla job openings at the Trump campaign right about now.
Is it true that if you say Donald Trump 3 times in the bathroom mirror, the hair in the drain will rise up to shout racial slurs? #AskTrump
— P a t r i c k (@ruinedbyreality) September 21, 2015
I'm gonna make a radical assumption here, and say there's prob'ly a coupla job openings at the Trump campaign right about now.
Monday, September 21, 2015
Wherefore, Repubs?
There's no Republican Party anymore. There's just a string of independent contract franchisees, looking for the opportunity to make a tidy commission on helping their billionaire sugar daddies take their pound of flesh.
These guys know a coupla important things about USAmerica Inc.
First, they know this joint's net worth is something like $124 Trillion.
These guys know a coupla important things about USAmerica Inc.
First, they know this joint's net worth is something like $124 Trillion.
One Hundred-Twenty-Four. Trillion. Dollars
Second, they know the hard part is done; we're convinced we have the requisite imaginary disease(s)...
- Immigrants-Gone-Wild
- FEMA Camps and Gun-Grabbers
- Muslims hiding under our beds waiting for a chance to kill us and rape our house pets
- Scary Black People
- Foreign Competition
- etc etc etc
...so all they have to do is look for a chance to sell us the miracle cure; the make-believe crutches - and some snake oil to take the edge off tomorrow morning when we get that nagging feeling that this is the same old shit - zealotry dressed up to look like common sense - and that we fall for it every fuckin' time.
This isn't an election - it's not even a hostile takeover - it's a leveraged buyout to be staged during the run-up to the Stockholders' Meeting next November. And guess who's gonna end up holding the bag when it's done?
These people have no soul and no honor.
This isn't an election - it's not even a hostile takeover - it's a leveraged buyout to be staged during the run-up to the Stockholders' Meeting next November. And guess who's gonna end up holding the bag when it's done?
These people have no soul and no honor.
Sunday, September 20, 2015
Is We Learnin'?
Some of us just never get tired of being played for suckers.
Police charged 45-year-old Scott Lattin with making a false report after arresting him at his home in Whitney, Texas. While the suspect denied the accusation during a brief on-camera interview, his arrest warrant stated that he admitted to damaging the truck for “insurance reasons.”
Lattin organized the fundraiser after claiming last week that vandals spray-painted “Black Lives Matter” across his truck as well as “F*ck the police” because he had decorated the vehicle with the phrase “Police Lives Matter” in support of Harris County Deputy Darren Goforth, who was shot and killed at a gas station last month. Both authorities and conservatives have attempted to connect Goforth’s death with the movement, seemingly without any evidence.
Go, Bernie
Try to look past the very simple and very obvious fact that Mark Halperin is an Authoritarian Corporate Propagandist trying to pass himself off as a Political Journalist.
We didn't just get into this mess yesterday, so we're prob'ly not gonna be able to fix it all by tomorrow.
But more specifically - on the usual crap that "conservatives" are always tossing around about "Balanced Budget From Day One", here's your line, Bernie: "While you can definitely spend your way to oblivion, you can't save your way back to prosperity."
But while we're working on getting The System back up and running, we have to get a coupla things thru our thick skulls.
First and foremost - stop giving these guys the benefit of the doubt.
--It's not like Halperin doesn't know what makes the economy work.
--And it's not like Jeb isn't aware of the fact that Supply Side is bullshit.
--We have to stop thinking Ted Cruz is trying to practice some good old fashioned democratic self-governance, but he's just not very good at it; or that we simply disagree on the questions of how we should go about moving towards that more perfect union.
I look at what the GOP has been doing for 30+ years, and I get a very bad feeling very deep in my gut.
hat tip = Democratic Underground
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