That Crazy Peace Love Train Rolls On Amid the Last Gasps of Relevance in the Corporate Propaganda Machine

Washington Post Slide Show
from hordes of liberal minions.



It appears that the Corporate Media is completely beside itself. They seem to have no idea how to react to people gathering en masse to undercut their message. Today they spent their time focusing on the more familiar hate rallies rather than folks choosing to get along and have a little fun.

After all, their winning formula always has been: Panic Sells. And nothing sells panic like fear.

Did this rally get wide coverage in the news today? No, of course not. It's against their bottom line best interests to show people taking charge of their own psychic well being. Why that might give the rest of the country uppity ideas. It has all the redolence of "Odeur Pathetique"

So today was spent covering celebrity news, gossip, the President's political impotence and YEMEN TERROR PLOT, TERROR TERROR TERROR!!!

More time was spent today discussing Charlie Sheen's coked up nudity than hundreds of thousands of Americans celebrating sanity.

CNN resorted to streaming cartoon character Ted Nugent ranting about Democrats literally being evil. And discussing Sarah Palin at TeaBagger rally, as if those things have not already been "done to death". Real news, like hundreds of thousands of people on the mall having a laugh at their expense, doesn't seem to compute.

Yes, this does show that a large segment of people are completely out of touch with America. Unfortunately, it's the Corporate Media.

 Anyone considering themselves both ethical and journalists, would do well to abandon this rotten corpse and find a job reporting the news.

Why Would the US Army Need 90 grams of a Hallucinogenic Chemical Warfare Drug?

Quinuclidinyl Benzilate Link to Wikipedia, where it is listed as: Extremely persistent in soil and water and on most surfaces; contact hazard.

From The Wednesday Report:

Ketchum describes the first stage of BZ incapacitation, which lasts up to 4 hours, as characterized by feelings of discomfort and apprehension, manifested through extreme restlessness, muscle spasms in the extremities, and "bird-like flapping of the arms". The second stage lasting from 4 to 12 hours is marked by a sedated, stuporous inactivity. Individuals may sleep or appear to sleep and respond only to forceful stimulation, and alternatively may grope or crawl spontaneously after periods of lying still. The most extreme effects occur 12 hours after exposure: hallucinations take over individual perception and real events and objects are either ignored or grossly misinterpreted. Complex paranormal hallucinations continue 24 to 48 hours after exposure which can be merely amusing or intensely frightening. Attempts to converse with people not actually present can occur, and vertical objects can be misinterpreted for people. Ketchum concludes that there is "little difference how intelligent, adventurous, self-confident or competitive the individual might be; the agent apparently disables the strong and weak impartially without prejudice" (WWW2 cit. Ketchum 1963).

If you got a little stash to spare, the US Army needs you..... to Paaaar-tay!

















Hey Dude, Awesome News!

How to Make Your Son a Nancy Pants.

Hey Ma! I'm joining the Glee club!

Are You Being Serviced?

Down on the farm, when you want more chickens or goats or pigs, you can't just go to the grocery store and buy them. Well you can, but it's cheaper and easier to make more at home.

In order to do that, you bring in the appropriate critter to 'service' the animals you need to multiply.

Turn them loose in a pen, wait a given amount of time and voila! Bacon! Or Eggs or whatever.


Now, do yourself a favor. Go back and read the stories about banks "servicing" consumer loans and mortgages by way of "servicing" agreements.

At that point it becomes very clear what has happened to this country.

Bacon.

Yer Average TeaBagger's Understanding of the Physics of Heat and Light.

So, the International Code Council is meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina this week. You can watch the live webcast if you are so inclined. If you are lucky, maybe some bored fool will steal a car from the NASCAR Hall of Fame across the street and fashion it into a Deathmobile. Then maybe they'll can drive it  through the crowd to liven things up a bit.

Why don'tcha ICC my ass!

Here, various architects, engineers, the folks from the International Residential Code's (IRC's) Energy Chapter and the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) meet to discuss proposed changes to the code. These proposals are voted on by the council and ratified by other council members, along with state and county officials who are supposed to enforce the decisions made. Also represented are folks from various state Home Builders Associations. Exciting, exciting stuff.

So today, among the various proposals floated was lowering the U-Value of window glass from .40 to .20. Like I said, piss your pants exciting. Basically U-Value measures a window's ability to reduce heat loss from inside your house in the winter. Less heat lost means more money saved by the home owner.

You lower U-values by using 2 panes separated by a spacer. Or filling the space with various gases. It's meant to help keep heat in. That's all.

During the "debate" on how much of the new code proposals should be ratified, a representative of the Texas Home Builders Association makes his deep displeasure evident to the assembled body. He took exception to the recommendations for increased energy efficiency, saying he didn't see the point. He didn't like all these new requirements being shoved down his throat by the Gub'mint. His thinking held that, after next Tuesday, "none of this stuff is going to be enforced anyway".

In his grand vision, the results of next Tuesday's election would have a Republican Tsunami wash over the country; returning us to the BushCo. days of easy oil and lawless abandon.

Never mind that this is the International Code Council. I'm sure his understanding of Foreign Relations and International Policy is on par with Gover Palin's. (half term = half title) And never mind that these codes were in place before the current "Colored" President. And mostly never mind that the Code is enforced by State Law, not by Federal Mandate. Facts? Forget facts, he was on a roll.

"Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!"
"Germans?"
"Forget it, he's rolling."

Further, he complained, this was going to cost builders and cost the people paying the builders. And, he said, if they kept requiring lower and lower U-Values, the glass would finally become so dark, nobody would be able to see out their damned windows!

On my Mother's grave, this is what. he. said.


And I only have one thing to say in response: If any more of these brainless gits makes it into a position of real power, may what gods exist have mercy on us all.

From the "No Shit, Sherlock" file: US bankrupt.

Seems somebody has put on their party hat early

Boston University economist Laurence Kotlikoff says U.S. government debt is not $13.5-trillion (U.S.), which is 60 per cent of current gross domestic product, as global investors and American taxpayers think, but rather 14-fold higher: $200-trillion – 840 per cent of current GDP. “Let’s get real,” Prof. Kotlikoff says. “The U.S. is bankrupt.”

How bad is it really Prof?

Prof. Kotlikoff says: “The IMF is saying that, to close this fiscal gap [by taxation], would require an immediate and permanent doubling of our personal income taxes, our corporate taxes and all other federal taxes.

Howz about instead....just talking out loud here....howz about we ACTUALLY TAX corporations? In real terms that flatheads like me can understand, corporations pay next to nothing in taxes. They get something the middle and lower classes don't, called "breaks". Cities, states and the good old US of A will even lower or negate the taxes they pay in order to stay on their good side.

And howz about we raise taxes on the rich back up to where they were, say... oh... about Nixon? I don't think we need to go all the way back to Roosevelt's rate of a 93% tax rate on the wealthy. But keeping them on Reagan's Wealthfare rate of effectively 15%, isn't working for anybody..... except the rich, of course.

Nixon's 70% tax seems a reasonable compromise.

You want the economy to pull out of it's nose dive? TAX THE RICH

Well, Ain't That a Kick in the Nads. We're More Corrupt Than The Belgians?

Transparency International has posted the results of 13 independent surveys to tell us something completely unsurprising: We haven't been a 1st World Country in a very long time.

Minimalist Poverty is the New Chic

The Corporate Propaganda Machine is geared up early this morning.

CBS is relating how much happier and more deeply spiritually satisfied we'll all be with less stuff.

How bloody convenient, since more and more of us are no longer able to afford stuff. I'm looking forward to seeing how they spin our inability to buy food.

You too can be a skeleton!

This Is Bob Villa's JackAss.

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Rand Paul is an Overly Priviledged Asshat

and his blind followers should be shot like the rabid dogs they are.

The man thinks the government should have stayed out of BP's business. And that if any business wants to discriminate against you or yours, then that's their right.

He lives in Kentucky, but has no clue why Harlan County MIGHT be some place worth knowing about as he stumps for votes across the state he's supposed to represent.

He's never wanted for anything. Never had to work a fucking day in his life and so he never did.

His followers think it's manly to hold a woman down and stomp on her head and neck because she dares question their candidate. The cowardly bastards should be horsewhipped.

BP hooks up with that chick with the "crazy eyes" - You know... the TeaBagger

BP Funding Tea Party Favorites

So, the politicians labeling themselves: Anti-corporate and Honesty in Government are taking the Planet Killer's money?

Well, kiss my ass and call me Shirley. That's a fine kettle of pre-oiled fish.

NY "Vandalism"

That seems to be what they're calling Honesty these days.

Honorable Thieves

And No, I'm NOT Talking About ANYBODY In DC or Wall Street.

Laptop thief backs up victim's data, mails it to him

from the CNET article:

For around a week later, the professor says he received an envelope. Inside was a USB stick. Did this hold information about a rival professor's indiscretions with his comely students? Did it hold images of Tiger Woods on a private trip to Sweden?

No, it held all the data from his laptop. The thief, it appears, took pity and spent perhaps hours making sure that the professor got all of his unbacked-up information back.

The world is a harsh, unforgiving place, in which we lose far more than we win. But if this thief would merely open a university program for thieves, then surely the world's karmic balance might be shifted for once in a healthy direction.

Marriages Survive Longest On Ignorance

ScienceNews reports that

...evidence lends support to a hypothesis that accuracy in predicting each other’s preferences decreases over the course of a relationship despite greater time and opportunity to learn about each other’s likes and dislikes. 

 Older couples’ knowledge decline partly reflects a tendency by partners to pay increasingly less attention to one another, because they view their relationship as firmly committed or assume that they have little left to learn about each other, the researchers propose.

Here's an alternative hypothesis: Ignoring them keeps you from smothering them  with a pillow while they sleep.

"Don't shove beans up your nose."

--from a sign in my 8th grade History class. It still applies. 

Seriously? You have to tell an 8th grader not to put beans up his nose? Shortbus much?

Don't Act So Surprised. You Know It's True.

Makes complete sense.

Longview OR, just outside of Portland, has instituted a fine of $1000.00 for violating the new "street camping" ordinance.

Common sense might suggest if the "street campers" had $1000.00, then they probably would NOT be "street camping" in the first place.

So, inevitably, when the "street campers" cannot pay the fine, they are sent to a privately owned corporate prison. Here they work for $0.25 an hour with profit from their labor going to the corporation. And the cherry on top? They are housed at a rate of $40,000.00 per year expense to the taxpayers.

'Ay bugger off. Don't look at us. We belong to an anarcho-syndicalist-collective.

You know, I'm beginning to think that's not such a bad idea. Grubbing around in the muck for piles of filth we own, versus the ones being heaped on us by them idjits in high places.

Oh My God! Another Cranky Bastard That Gets It. THANK YOU!

From The New York Crank

One of the reasons you and I and other ordinary American citizens are taxed so much and still live in a country with a huge Federal deficit is because multi-billion dollar American corporations are taxed so little.

They move money around — around Europe and the Caribbean — to make their tax liabilities disappear.

According to Bloomberg news, Google and other U.S. corporations are ripping off the taxpayer to the tune of $60 billion. Now Facebook is about to follow. And there are still others.

The upshot? We work for them, we buy their products. Which means: we make them rich. And they play shell games so they won't have to pony up their share?

From one irritated bastard to another: I salute you, sir.

The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

For them that's got the money.

After a decade of this story floating around, after the worker bees lost their 401K retirement in the Stock Market shenanigans, now the Washington Post decides to give it a nod.

Seems there are judges who, out of the "goodness of their hearts", have decided never to rule in favor of the investor when they make complaints against the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

It's from the Simpson's you idiot.

What is the going rate for a Soul these days anyway?

Savage Austerity

Sounds like a chartered accountancy romance novel.

from SquawkRadio

But alas, nothing so fun or engaging. Instead it's a more financially graphic explanation of how you are about to get screwed from William Buiter Citigroup Inc.’s chief economist. And looks a little more like this.