Check out this angrily passionate editorial by the great Keith Olbermann re: the new, absolutely diabolical Military Commissions Act. (Read up on it and know that this is terrible and insane.)
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ProTV Video, a Romanian private TV station, has a video of soldiers of the People’s Republic of China actually killing unarmed, harmless Tibetan refugees trekking through the snow on a pilgrimmage to see the Dalai Lama.
Who will stand up to this brutality? Who will make the PRC pay for their numerous despicable crimes against humanity?
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Brainlessness at Reuters
Joe Maguire lost his job at Reuters for writing a book about Ann Coulter. The book is called Brainless: The Lies and Lunacy of Ann Coulter.
Reuters confirmed that Mr. Maguire was granted conditional approval to write his book on Ms. Coulter… When asked what changed once the book was ready, a company statement pointed to Reuters’ principles of “integrity, independence and freedom from bias.â€
So what is all this talk about Liberal media? And before you point out that Mr. Maguire’s book may or may not be left of the dial, a book is one thing, but news is another thing entirely. By firing a guy for pointing out that Ann Coulter is – duh! – a mindless raving lunatic (and doing so in a perfectly legitimate venue), they are effectively supporting biased journalism of a far worse kind than that which could have ever conceivably come from Mr. Maguire himself.
And anyway, if pointing out that the Emperor* is wearing no clothes** makes you a traitor, then does that make unbiased journalists insurgents?
* 1 Coulter; or, 2 mainstream media in general
** 1 is a blathering idiot; or, 2 has no business presenting a blathering idiot’s foolish, inane lies as the truth
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Mark Foley (R-Fla) is a… Democrat?
Fox News is now pretending that disgraced Republican congressman Mark Foley is a Democrat! Simply incredible. The lies and bullshit that they spew on the unsuspecting and curiously unbefuddled masses just continue to grow in scope and effect. How this may affect the elections is anybody’s guess, but if enough people who get their news exclusively from Fox are duped that easily, it may turn ugly.
“The only function of the Suspicious Looking Device is to appear as suspicious as possible, whether carried in hand or placed indiscrimately in public places.
“The SLD contains LEDs, a LED array, a character display, an optical distance sensor, capacitive touch sensor, buzzer, and motors.”
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Baghdad, With Trenches
Iraqis Plan to Ring Baghdad With Trenches
So that’s what the future of democracy looks like! I can hear it now: “Thank you for bringing democracy to our formerly sovereign nation, Americans!”
No wonder the entire world hates the United States. No wonder at all.
Did you know: If you’re really serious about getting your favorite greasy politician elected, you could
- invest hundreds of hours (unpaid in most cases) campaigning for them
- simply hack the Diebold machine taking the votes, which only requires a few minutes of your time.
or you could
Homeland Security Secretary (and Skeletor imposter*) Michael Chertoff, presumably issuing a sweeping indictment of all thought-criminals everywhere:
“Clearly, at the end of the day, we’ve got to eliminate that pool of people who are susceptible to becoming killers.” (Spoken at around 7:20 on the stream’s timeline; emphasis mine.)
Possible translation?:
Are there any queers in the theater tonight? Get them up against the wall!
There’s one in the spotlight, he don’t look right to me! Get him up against the wall!
That one looks Jewish! And that one’s a coon!
Who let all of this riff-raff into the room?
There’s one smoking a joint, and another with spots!
If I had my way, I’d have all of you shot!
(Roger Waters, “In the Flesh”)
Pre-Crime, anyone?
* doesn’t he remind you of Senator Palpatine, just before he becomes the evil Emperor? I tell you, Michael Chertoff will likewise reveal himself to be Skeletor one dark day….
Global warming is all in our minds. Also an apparent figment of our imagination: more than 100 people (so far) who have died as a direct cause of the current heat wave sweeping California.
While NASA has actually removed the phrase “to understand and protect our home planet” from its mission statement, an obvious sign that the idiotic monkey-hear, monkey-repeat global-warming deniers in Washington have them under their ridiculously fat thumbs, they’ve also been cutting or delaying programs intended to figure this climate change thing out.
So, has the politicization of science gone from merely hurting children by denying the obvious reality of evolution to actually killing people by denying the obvious reality of the global warming catastrophe?
So who’s on the side of citizenry, if our government wants to roll over and play stupid while we roast in the ever-increasing temperatures that are currently making our little planet a little less inhabitable each day? (Certainly not Republicans, who defiantly show their disgust with the poor by continually voting not to increase the minimum wage, all the while voting to give themselves raises and give tax cuts to the poor rich people in this country.)
What’s the real deal here, then? Is the U.S. government trying to enslave its own people by creating an environment where we have no recourse or protection from calamity without paying? Has America finally been turned over to Big Business? Where has all this incredible ignorance come from, and why is it actively trying to take us back to the Dark Ages, when common people were literally at the mercy of all-powerful tyrants? And how is it that We, the People, are actually letting this happen to us?
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link roundup
Top 10 places to find royalty free, public domain, stock photos
Stephen Hawking in the news: “It is important for the human race to spread out into space for the survival of the species… Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.” – He’s also working on a children’s book a la Harry Potter, sans magic. Dude!
Footage of meteoroid hitting the moon.
Court orders Bob Taft (Governor- OH) to disclose potentially scandalous records. Corrupt Bob must give up. What a loser.
Aussie lyrebird is like a freaking dictaphone of nature! I’ve heard wild stories about this bird, but hear it imitate – perfectly! – a buzzing chainsaw, and two different camera shutters!
After the Rodney King riots in South Central, the city gave residents a plot of land in good faith. How nice! They’ve since turned it into the largest urban farm in America! Unfortunately, it is at this very moment under corporate and police attack. It seems the land was dubiously sold out from under The People to developers. Shame, shame, shame! This is outrageous, and reeks of the kind of “indian-giving” that white people are most famous for.
Don’t even try to cancel AOL. They’ll just give you the runaround and, erm, ask for your father. WTF.
Sexy ro-bots having sexy sex.
An even weirder video: “dancing” Japanese girls teaching defensive English. I guess. Don’t make fun of them.
EFF‘s The Corruptibles!
Here’s an idea: DIY impeachment!
If you don’t think there’s enough evidence to mandate an impeachment of George W. Bush, you might not have been aware of the facts. That’s okay. We don’t actually blame you.
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hilarious spoof
In the St. Louis, MO suburb of Black Jack, “Family Values” means getting legally married, or living on the street in a cardboard box with your kids.
CBS News: Black Jack, Mo., To Evict Unmarried Couples With Children From Homes
Mayor Norman McCourt said starting Wednesday the city will begin trying to evict groups who do not fit into Black Jack’s definition of family…
So, essentially, this means that if this kind of thing flies, the gummint will have a say in who you’re with, where you live, and how many children you have. What’s shocking is the the idea of evicting a couple with children. Homeless kids, i’d hazard, are never good PR for a city.
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link roundup
The Secrets of Rennes-le-Château; Notes on a Strange World (Skeptical Inquirer November 2004) This is a must-read for fans of Holy Blood Holy Grail and The Da Vinci Code.
National Geographic: The Lost Gospel of Judas Found in the 1970s, and recently pieced together and translated. Paints Judas not as a traitor, but as the best pal, handpicked by Jesus to turn him in.
And MySpacers, please read this: Hacking a MySpace Layout by Mike Davidson of Newsvine. Complete with downloadable sample CSS and a tutorial, this post is easily the best thing referencing MySpace in a long time. Here’s what i did to mine. (Note the banner up top: Latin for “this place is terrible”.)
WikiTruth: censored Wikipedia articles, retrieved from the digital void and set out in the sun again. No editing, natch.
Even Generals want to see Rummy quit.
10 Wackiest e-commerce sites, from Wired.
Great works of art, as the artists might have done them as children. (Check out the Escher!)
Nahuelito, presumably a close cousin to Nessie, recently spotted and photographed. Clever hoax, or real?
Make those cool stickers like the feed linkifiers on the sidebar.
California Department of Corrections (not the Billboard Liberation Front, as was previously stated) salutes US Military in Iraq.
Big Brother has his eyes on you, NYC.
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links to see and do
Texas arresting people in bars for being drunk
Interesting article about hypocrisy and “pro-life”
V for Vendetta: fucking completely awesome. They did it right, and they did it well indeed. We need V here in the Former United States.
Prince’s new album is so good, it’s scary.