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Ideas for 2nd Stimulus Cover Broad Swath (Yahoo)

My god people! What the fuck is your problem?

How much useless desperate "stimulation" are you going to do?

Over the weekend, Ed Lazear, the president's chief economic adviser, said that at least "parts of the country" are already in recession.

On Monday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told House lawmakers that "consideration of a fiscal package by the Congress at this juncture seems appropriate" given the risk of a "protracted slowdown."

This economy was headed for recession (the dreaded word) before all this mortgage and credit shit hit the fan.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I know.

We have to make Joe "Six-Pack" The Plumber think we're doing something so he can buy more beer at cheap prices.

Dammit.

What the fuck is your excuse going to be in the next few years when you can't find money (real or borrowed) to shore up Social Security? Huh?

$700 billion for your banking cronies and now millions more to make Americans feel the illusion that you're doing something?

Arrghhh!!!

The verdict on the effectiveness of those rebates is mixed to negative: While they boosted consumer spending in the short-term, they didn't do so nearly as much as they boosted consumers' savings or ability to pay down debt, neither of which is considered a short-term boost to economic activity.

The initial outlay for that first package, which also included business incentives, was $168 billion. This time around, depending on which measures are used, the cost could run between $150 billion and $300 billion.

You all just keep putting these useless Democrats and Republicans in office.

They and the businesses and lobbyists that have financed their campaigns have alreayd shifted the entire wealth of the economy into a few hands.

Do you really think that this money actually is going to somehow improve the economy?

Real Deal on 'Joe the Plumber' Reveals New Slant (New York Times)

As it turns out, Joe the Plumber, as he became nationally known when Senator John McCain made him a theme at Wednesday's final presidential debate, may work in the plumbing business, but he is not a licensed plumber.

Thomas Joseph, the business manager of Local 50 of the United Association of Plumbers, Steamfitters and Service Mechanics, based in Toledo, said Thursday that Mr. Wurzelbacher had never held a plumber's license, which is required in Toledo and several surrounding municipalities. He also never completed an apprenticeship and does not belong to the plumber's union, which has endorsed Mr. Obama. On Thursday, he acknowledged that he does plumbing work even though he does not have a license.

His full name is Samuel J. Wurzelbacher. And he owes back taxes, too, public records show. The premise of his complaint to Mr. Obama about taxes may also be flawed, according to tax analysts. Contrary to what Mr. Wurzelbacher asserted and Mr. McCain echoed, neither his personal taxes nor those of the business where he works are likely to rise if Mr. Obama's tax plan were to go into effect, they said.

Yup! It is time for everybody's favorite corporate parasite United Way to rear its ugly head.

The interoffice spam started rolling in Friday and will now be reaching a fevered pitch.

There are many kinds of cancer in this world.

And I think United Way may just be one of the most deadly.

So prices have gone up here and there and for the most part, I've been unaffected by them.

Sure, gasoline is around $4.00/gallon but since I drive, I can't really complain about it and just pay the price if driving is what I want to do.

Groceries? I really haven't noticed that much of a price increase in much of what I buy from Giant Eagle.

But today...

Oh...

I got slammed with my first slap in the face of a price increase.

My morning coffee at White Castle went from $1.09 (though I was typically charged .98 since I'm a morning regular) to an insane $1.39!

The reason I stopped going to Tim Horton's and other places was because White Castle not only turned out to be a better cup of coffee... it was also cheaper!

And now...

I don't know what to do.

I'm a coffee addict.

I have been since I was a child.

And man oh man... my morning White Castle coffee is like one of the single most important events of my day.

I'm torn between saying "fuck off" and just getting a thermos and making coffee at home or just letting the man step all over me by charging me 20 cents more for exactly the same thing.

Yes.

The bad economy and inflation have just hit me in the face!

Digging up a corpse and and decapitating it to use the head as a bong may be a signal you have a drug problem (From Fark)

The suspects allegedly used a shovel to lop off the skull and then cut off the jaw and used electrical tape to create the bong. Houston Police Department officials are not releasing the name of the deceased corpse because they are still trying to contact family members.

If you are going to go through all that effort to dig up a dead body to get a skull and then use frigg'n electical tape to make your bong you have far more issues than I thought.

That's like the loser who owns 2060+ Transformers that cost thousands of dollars over the years putting them all on display on cheap ass plastic shelves.

Some people are just sick.

On this day in 1843 Charles Dickens published A Christmas Carol, fabricating glamour and ushering in the new foundations of this utter bullshit holiday.

For 164 years Western Culture, especially the English-speaking world, and continued to create and fabricate a bullshit excuse to pointlessly spend money and create a completely illusionary sense of goodwill.

The real beauty, and hence irony, of the piece is the fact that Ebeneezer Scrooge himself calls Christmas a "fraud" and yet through Dickens becomes the poster boy for the illusion-making himself.

In the grand scheme of the universe, the only thing I can really thank A Christmas Carol for is that it resulted, a century later, in Tinny Tim, from Futurama.

I forgot what a great character he is.

Sometimes I read things that make me want to just harm humans more than anything in the world.

What possible answer to the question "Why did you do this?" exists.

None.

And that's why I want to harm humans who do this.

FYI:

Velveeta, like Alia, is an abomination against nature.

That is all.

If he can be a target, I may even be a target too!

He wants to steal my Black Fire Convoy. I know it.

He who possesses Black Fire Convoy possesses ultimate power!

I think he's after my Kielbasa King title too!

While I was in Boston and Rhode Island one of the goddamn cats decided to use my gym bag as a fucking litter box!!!

I went to go pack my shoes and stuff up so I could run in Chicago and everything is ruined!

The gym clothes and my gloves totally smell like cat piss.

My shoes totally smell like cat piss!

My MP3 player totally smells like cat piss!!!

The clothes are in the laundry and I'll imagine they'll clean up but the shoes are probably a lost cause.

Grrrrr....

Goddamn sumbitch cats!

I could give a rat's ass about communism but this is so very very wrong.

It just goes to show you how marketing and public relations companies can totally merge with political agendas to cause additional vomit to spew from the mouths of vermin.

The Victims of Communism Memorial, within view of the Capitol, was more than a decade in the making. It aims to honor memories and educate current and future generations about communism's crimes against humanity.

At its center is a woman holding what Bush called a ``lamp of liberty.''

``She reminds us that when an ideology kills tens of millions of people, and still ends up being vanquished, it is contending with a power greater than death,'' Bush told roughly 1,000 invited guests.

Where's the Victimes of Slavery memorial?

It is all so very very very vermanic.

The difference between Marketing, PR, Advertising and Branding

I love how this country treats the mentally retarded.

It blows my mind! And it comes with video too!

However, there's something poetically beautiful that one retarded man is basically infatuated with another retarded man but not in a gay way.

He so needs to go on American Idol.

Necessary? Is it necessary for me to drink my own urine? No, but I do it anyway because it's sterile and I like the taste.

Best Wedding Dress Ever!

It is with a hearty handshake that I thank the petroleum companies of the United State for raising gasoline prices to $2.80/gallon to celebrate the crucifixion and death of Jesus of Nazareth.

The US Petroleum industry: Celebrating various people's holidays seasons year round!

Some people say Jesus would want it this way.

Some people say Baby Jesus loves it at the end of December too.

The Easter Bunny though is rather pissed off at the whole thing.

Or so I've been told.

Principal admits throwing excrement (Toronto Star)

A suspended Toronto elementary school principal has pleaded guilty to throwing feces (excrement) on a child.

Maria Pantalone, 49, was charged with two counts of assault - one against that child and one against another – but only admitted to one of the charges today.

“I couldn’t take it any more,” she testified, in describing the provocative circumstances leading up to the incident last June 30.

But she agreed it wasn't in any way justified.

I mean... there are a helluva lot of people I would love to throw shit on!

So it was 4:45am and I was walking out to the Deluxe Luxury New Beetle with...

1. an obvious gym bag with clothes and towels
2. an obvious computer laptop bag on my shoulder
and...
3. some toys for Evebird in my other hand

Dude! I didn't know Hound Dog delivers this early!

Wha???

Dude! Do you deliver other food too?

Um... I'm going to work!

I so need to get out of the ghetto.

I just can't relate anymore.

Someone actually thought I looked like a fucking pizza delivery guy!!!

I am so totally in a different world from when I was 22.

Bad craziness.

Soon. Quite soon.

Grrrr. I'm always losing my damn glasses!

What sucks is I can't remember if I even wore them to work or not today.

My mind is definitely going.

Eeew!

Postal rates set to rise May 14 (USAToday)

Americans will pay 2 cents more to mail a first-class letter beginning May 14, but they will be able to buy a new type of stamp that could shield them from future price increases.

Yet another reason for me to totally do away with Christmas cards and shit like that which are a waste of money anyway.

Basing first-class rates on package shape. For instance, boxes and large envelopes will cost more to send than letter-size envelopes of the same weight.

Geez... I wonder...

$663 + tax.

That's what it is costing me to get the car fixed.

The irony of all of this is that as I was heading home at lunch yesterday the car lurched forward, sputtered, and then the 'check engine' light went on.

I was thinking "Great... I just so need this right now!" and continued on home.

When I got to the house I opened the mailbox to find the title had arrived from the bank.

Yup! The car is fully paid off and now shit's falling apart.

Joy.

Such joy.

My day had already been going shitty from the moment I got up at 4:30am and it continued that way.

And now it is going to cost me $700 to fix it.

I so should not have bought that laptop.

From Kelmeister...

I read this and I knew it would be good.

Experiment:

Replace ordinary eggs in cake recipe with Cadbury Creme Eggs and observe results.

Hypothesis:

THIS IS GOING TO BE SO AWESOME

841-pound woman dies of heart attack (physorg)

The woman who is believed to be the largest ever to have gastric bypass surgery, at 841 pounds, died of a massive heart attack in Houston, Texas.

The risk is usually small, but it is higher when performed on people with a body mass index between 35 and 60.

Williams' BMI was 137.5.

Oy koledy!!!

And here I am feeling horrible and shitty because I'm at my heaviest since August 2005.

And yes... it is my own slacker fault for the damage I've done these past 2 months.

Damn! 137.5!

How could you not have a massive heart attacked at 841! The human skeleton is not designed to support that kind of gross obesity!

Why do American restaurants hate this man so much?

They made him totally fat and gave him that monstrous gunt!

Ruby Tuesday actually became the first big chain to put nutrition information on its menus. Unfortunately it scrapped that initiative, presumably because it meant the sale of fewer "Colossal Burgers". With 1,940 calories and 141 grams of fat (more than two days� worth!), one of these megaburgers is equivalent to about five McDonald's Quarter Pounders.

I have zero experience with gaming.

And I'm pretty happy keeping it that way.

My only experience with that Warcraft game was some thing Giga used to play 8 years ago where some voice was always saying "You're the Captain" and then a South Park episode from last season.

I know some of you are probably gamers.

But I just don't understand it.

I think I'm too old.

I only like 1 joystick and 1 red button in my games. Two buttons max.

The things one finds on the internet.

$38,000 Kids' Birthday Parties? (Time.com)

If indeed you've shelled out $38,000 for your kid's birthday party and if indeed magic does exist, there is a place reserved for you in the deepest bowels of Hell.

The mere fact that this has to happen shows what a mistake it was buying a house near campus.

The constantly barking retarded fucking German Shepherd is back next door!!!

I FUCKING HATE THIS NEIGHBORHOOD!!!

Lagrainka... The Heart of It All!

What a way to start the new year.

I see White Castle got a new gift for 2007.

They installed a 1" clear plexiglass bulletproof barrier to keep people from threatening the employees or attempting to steal from the store.

Yes.

It is so great to live in a ghetto.

And what's scary? The White Castle where I get my morning coffee is actually in Clintonville and not exactly near the wasteland OSU North Campus!

Grrrrr...

Port 80 on the internets keeps timing out!!

I noticed it yesterday here in Windows, then I noticed it on the laptop with Mac OS X, and now it is doing it again on Windows.

Grrrrr...

Woman pleads not guilty to microwaving her baby (Toledo Blade)

The coroner concluded that the injuries could have only been caused by the baby being cooked in a microwave oven, according to Montgomery County Prosecutor Mathias Heck Jr. Investigators have said evidence that includes high-heat internal injuries and the absence of external burn marks on the baby were consistent with a microwave.

So my company gave out our... and I quote... "gifts" today which consisted of a $30 Kroger card.

I asked if I would have to pay taxes on this to which they said yes.

I then did something I don't think they expected: I handed the "gift" back and said that I did not ask for this, I do not expect it, and I do not wish to be penalized via taxes for a "gift" that I did not ask for.

No doubt I am now a 1) Scrooge, 2) and asshoole, 3) a dick, or 4) all of the above.

I really can't be involved in the insanity of the holidays and the bullshit bureaucracy and commerce that this stupid time of the year creates anymore.

To be given a gift and then be expected to treat it as some kind of compensation, taxed higher than my normal pay even, is bullshit.

I don't care if it is $300 or $30.

It is the conflict of ethics here that bothers me.

Item number 28 today on things that I read that just piss me off:

Fat pride: On U.S. campuses, an emerging field makes no apologies

During her sophomore year at Smith College, Director attended a discussion on fat discrimination: the way the super-sized are marginalized, the way excessive girth is seen as a moral failing rather than the result of complicated factors. But the academic community, she felt, didn't really give the topic proper consideration. She decided to do something about it.

n December 2004, she co-founded an organization called Size Matters, whose goal was to promote size acceptance and positive body image...

..."It's about a dominant culture's ideals of what a real person should be," said Stefanie Snider, 29, a graduate student at the University of Southern California, who's writing her dissertation on the intersection of queer and fat identities in the United States during the 20th century. "And whether that has to do with skin color or heritage or sexual orientation or ability, it ends up being similar in a lot of ways...

...And the first "Fat Studies Reader," an anthology of scholarly research on fat, is being shopped to university presses. It covers a range of topics, from the intersection of fat, gender, race, age, disability and class to fat heroines in chick lit, the role of fat burlesque dancers and the use of fat suits in film...

As someone who used to clock in at 315 lbs and basically has to fight every day to not be that fat, I have now read something that has offended me as much as this article I read of the stupidity in the Jesus Hates You video game!

The percentage of overweight people who are overweight due to a real genetic problem is tiny.

The majority are overweight because they are slackers! They are fat because they have let their lives become so fucked up by eating and lack of exercise.

My god is this insane!!! This country has truly devolved into a quagmire of such epic bullshit proportions that I think I do want the apocalypse to happen just to hit the reset button on the whole damn thing!

If I took the calories and fat away from an overweight person and forced them to exercise they would lose weight.

The only ones that I would never say are slackers are the ones who would still remain fat after caloric restrictions and exercise did not make their weight budge.

And I'm sorry, but those people would be very very hard to find.

This is the strangest thing I've read in a long long long time.

A 44-year-old Saginaw man remains jailed today on charges of bestiality after he was seen engaged in sexual acts with a dead dog, Michigan State Police troopers said.

Ronald Kuch was arrested after police searched the area of Midland and Carter roads Friday for a man who ran away from a Bay County Animal Control officer. The entire incident was within view of a nearby day care center...

Troopers said a woman from the day care center called for animal control because there was a dead dog near the property that had been hit by a car several days earlier.

Before officers could arrive, the man showed up and began engaging in sexual acts with the dog, police said. The animal control officer also reported seeing Kuch involved in the sex act and as he approached him, Kuch shoved him away and ran off.

State troopers searched the area and found the man hiding in the attic of a nearby house.

Officers determined that the house belonged to the man's girlfriend and later learned that the dog, a black Labrador retriever, also belonged to the girlfriend. The dog had been dead for four or five days.

The official charge of crimes against nature carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison. If the person is a repeat offender, the maximum is life in prison.

Horrific death at gay sex orgy (The Sun)

A coroner revealed yesterday how “buckets of sex toys” were found at an aristocrat’s home where a reveller plunged to his death following a gay orgy.

Anthony Casey, 38, fell 60ft from a roof terrace as he partied at Count Gottfried von Bismarck’s London apartment.

An inquest heard “bizarre” items were found in a room which had a large rubber tarpaulin on the floor.

They included towels, lubricants, mirrors, a butane gas canister, syringes, bottles of vodka, and a TV and video set up to show “scenes of a pornographic nature”.

Coroner Dr Paul Knapman said: “There was a gay orgy going on. Nevertheless, this was conducted by consenting males."

A post mortem found Mr Casey had consensual sex that night — and blood tests showed potentially lethal levels of cocaine. But he died from multiple fractures.

Party-goer Paul Dorrian said Mr Casey fell from the terrace after he left him alone to get water. Verdict: Misadventure.

Butane gas canister? WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!?!?!

I think this may redefine my concept of the term "misadventure".

Um. If anybody knows what the fuck a butane gas canister would be used for at an orgy please let me know.

This misadventure is going to bother me for years.

Ok. Now I pretty much hate United Way and their parasitical existence.

And now, today, minutes ago, my general hate has become full-blown extreme FUCKING hate!

Last week before I left I got the usual "parasite pack" to guilt me into donating money to support their corporate infrastructure. It immediately went into the trash as it does every year.

I will not be guilted in front of my co-workers and peers into forking over money to parasites.

But just now I walked over to talk to some people I haven't seen since I left and I see this poor goldfish basically choking to death in a tiny cup of water.

Apparently, last week, United Way had some "games" in which living animals were given away as prizes.

Living animals ARE NOT FUCKING PRIZES!!! Fish are high maintenance pets.

You do not give them away even if they are 10 cent feeder fish!

The woman had the fish on her desk and basically was "waiting for it to die"!!!

I don't even know how many more of these poor fish have been living choking in their "cup" of filthy water for the past week.

I managed to find a bottle of room temperature spring water to do a quick water change since I can't take this goldfish home immediately.

But this one I'm going to save. Number Seven will be going to the Attic of Love to be with Number Six.

Grrrrr....

I am so mad about this.

You don't put your dog in a 2 ft by 2 ft space and let it live in piss and shit do you???

Grrrrr....

I hate United Way more than I ever have now. I'll chalk up "Carny Games" to my general disgust of their parasitical existence.

Consider this summer's debut of Burger King's BK Stackers, which include a Quad Stacker option of four slabs of beef, four slices of cheese and up to eight slices of bacon -- "smothered," as the company puts it, in a creamy sauce.

The behemoth sandwich -- defibrillator sold separately -- contains 1,000 calories and a whopping 68 grams of fat, including 30 grams of saturated fat. According to nutritionists, that's about half the calories and 1-1/2 times the saturated fat the average adult should consume in an entire day.

Nun tried to kill priest after finding him in bed with another woman

A jealous nun appeared in court charged with threats to kill and an arson attack on a priest's house - after she caught him in bed with a married woman.

The furious nun - who was also Father Carmelo's cleaner - was also armed with a machete and threatened to kill the priest before being restrained by passers by.

The saucy goings on were made even more interesting by father Carmelo's age - he is 70 years old - and is said to have been sleeping with both sister De Sousa and the other woman for several months.

At the court hearing Sister De Sousa also claimed to have had two abortions as a result of having unprotected sex with Father Carmelo and also showed several love letters from him.

She told the hearing: "I just flipped when I came to the house and caught him in bed with another woman who is married.

"We had been together four years and I had even had two abortions because of him."

So all the past couple of days of insane eating has left me with an Anal Rampage... and I'm not talking about a never-released Botcon exclusive Beast Wars figure either.

Balls!

500-Pound Woman's Caretakers Charged With Neglect... and Incest!

...Because Peggie is so heavy, she needs someone to take care of her twenty-four hours a day.

Police say Peggie's husband and daughter were neglecting her by not feeding her or keeping her clean. When those allegations came to light, police discovered an even more disgusting twist.

"No, I don't want to be neglected, I don't want to be sitting in my own urine, my own waste," Johnson said. At more than five-hundred pounds, Peggie Johnson relies on family and friends to care for her. "Charles and Mary both was doing it, but then they got arrested last night and I got nobody now, I'm just stuck here," she said.

I so love that.

On top of the neglect, the two are charged with incest for apparently having sex, Peggie says that's the most painful part. "It's just sad and it hurts so bad for what's happened and what's been going on, and I really don't know the words to say," she said. Now, the news of the arrests, put a damper on Peggie's hopes for a new life. "I was so happy when my new door went in and Charles even helped work on the door and everything, and so I could have a new life and I could go out and do things and we can go places and that, and now this," she said.

Ok. I'm just going to come out and say it.

Guys named Christopher that go by the moniker "Topher" just fucking creep me out.

Ok.

That's said.

Holy fucking shit!

Ok. So recently in the Cowland news there's been this search going on down in the Southern Cowlands for a missing 3-year-old retarded boy who "apparently wandered off" after his mother passed out in a suburban Cincinnati park because of a heart condition.

Well. Guess what?

Yup. Oh. The lies do come out!!!

Marcus Fiesel's foster parents, Liz and David Carroll, were charged Monday with causing his death, nearly two weeks after the foster mother reported the child disappeared when she passed out at a park, triggering a massive search.

The Carrolls left Marcus Fiesel in a closet when they went to a family reunion in Kentucky on Aug. 4, authorities said. They returned home to find him dead two days later - nine days before reporting him missing - authorities said. David Carroll has been charged with burning his body.

A Hamilton County grand jury indicted the Carrolls on charges of involuntary manslaughter and endangering children, and David Carroll was charged with gross abuse of a corpse.

Insanity!

It amazes me.

I don't care if you say racist comments or what have you, just don't apologize if what you say is what you believe!

Don't back off if you mean it! And don't frigg'n wear one face to one audience and another, opposite face to other audiences because it makes you look like a whore and a tool!

Wal-Mart Image-Builder Resigns (New York Times)

The civil rights leader Andrew Young, who was hired by Wal-Mart to improve its public image, resigned from that post last night after telling an African-American newspaper that Jewish, Arab and Korean shop owners had “ripped off” urban communities for years, “selling us stale bread, and bad meat and wilted vegetables.”

In the interview, published yesterday in The Los Angeles Sentinel, a weekly, Mr. Young said that Wal-Mart “should” displace mom-and-pop stores in urban neighborhoods.

“You see those are the people who have been overcharging us,” he said of the owners of the small stores, “and they sold out and moved to Florida. I think they’ve ripped off our communities enough. First it was Jews, then it was Koreans and now it’s Arabs.”

Mr. Young, 74, a former mayor of Atlanta and a former United States representative to the United Nations, apologized for the comments and retracted them in an interview last night. Less than an hour later, he resigned as chairman of Working Families for Wal-Mart, a group created and financed by the company to trumpet its accomplishments.

“It’s against everything I ever thought in my life,” Mr. Young said. “It never should have been said. I was speaking in the context of Atlanta, and that does not work in New York or Los Angeles.”

If that is "against" everything you ever thought in your life then you wouldn't say something like that.

And what the hell does "speaking in the context of Atlanta, and that does not work in New York or Los Angeles" exactly mean?

Admit it. You are a tool. You are paid to say such comments and especially (and obviously) in the context of an audience that probably doesn't particularily like Jews, Arabs and Koreans.

Just admit you are a tool.

It is ok to believe such things. Just don't back off and become a total pussy when you are called out on what you said!

That just makes you look even worse.

Explaining his comments about Koreans, Jews and Arabs, Mr. Young said he was referring to the history of retail ownership in the neighborhood where he lives in southwestern Atlanta.

“Almost everyone who has come into my community has moved in, made money and moved out and moved up,” he said. “That process is still continuing.”

Over the last two years, Wal-Mart efforts to open stores in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York have been blocked. Because of Mr. Young’s background, Wal-Mart had looked to him to ease its entry into such cities.

“The only thing I can do,” Mr. Young said last night before he resigned, “is to ask that people judge me about a life of working together with people who are different and bringing people together without violence and without rancor. I would hope that would count for something.”

And then... some people just cloak their real views under conventient public personas.

In lieu of actual content in an article, The Times UK offers an article entitled "Mammoths may roam again after 27,000 years".

There is actually no news here.

No really.

We have the title:" Mammoths may roam again after 27,000 years."

And: "...Ice Age mammals, such as woolly mammoths, that have been frozen in permafrost for thousands of years may contain viable sperm ..."

And: "Research has indicated that mammalian sperm can survive being frozen for much longer than was previously thought, suggesting that it could potentially be recovered from species that have died out."

And: "With access to the mammoth’s genetic code, and with frozen sperm recovered from testes, it may be possible to resurrect an animal that is very similar to a mammoth."

And: "The mammoth is a close genetic cousin of the modern Asian elephant, and scientists think that the two may be capable of interbreeding."

And: "The frozen mammoth sperm could be injected into elephant eggs, producing offspring that would be 50 per cent mammoth."

And: "The suggestion that it may be possible to recreate an animal that is at least part-mammoth has emerged..."

And: "This could mean that it is able to survive in similar..."

The entire article doesn't really have any actual concrete data or experimental fact about anything. It is a pointless useless written article.

Insane!

I went to bed at midnight and got up at 6am.

The neighbor came home at 2am.

Sometime in those 4 hours somebody broke out the back window of her car.

This is in front of my house!!! This is normally where I or Giga would park!!!

I stopped parking out there and locking my car up in the back after this happened 2 weeks ago.

I never once heard a thing nor dod the Hoont bark at all at any noise.

I have to finish this house and get out of this fucking neighborbood.

It just gets worse and worse and worse.

Ugh!

So lately huge 5" x 4" or so panes of glass "waste" have been placed against my fence behind the alley. Then the back seat of a car has appeared.

I swear, I can't convey to you all how exciting it is to have 3 300 gallon trash bins behind your house and then have every fucking person dump whatever it is they feel like dumping there.

Now that I'm pulling in the back this kind of shit is no longer out-of-sight/out-of-mind and it is irking me.

The panes of glass worry more more than anything since they are just screaming to some of the local youth vermin to throw rocks at and shatter into thousands of pieces.

I called Nail-A-Dumper, who then transferred me to some other group, that then had me call the City.

What the fuck is the point of having the Nail-A-Dumper line if they are just going to transfer you to someone else who then tells you to call another number?!?!?! Arghhhhhh!!!!

They better remove this shit pronto!

Oh. And to top it off, the guy at the city # said my address didn't exist. How the fuck can the property that I own and pay taxes on not fucking exist?!?!?!

Um... I feel dirty.

I'm cleaning the Attic of Love and listening to show tunes.

What the fuck is wrong with me?!?!?!

That's like gayer than gay isn't it?

A circumcision festival attracted Kosovo's Albanians and Serbs to a Bosnian Muslim rite. (UPI)

Residents of villages near Kosovo's southern town of Prizren say the Sunet circumcisions of more than 100 small boys in one day could be explained simply by poverty.

"It dates from a period of crisis when people had no money. It was simpler for everybody to come together and share the expenses," Rafik Kasi, a journalist from Gornje Ljubinje said.

On Saturday, two surgeons and a doctor performed procedures on boys under local anesthetic for a small number of parents, while a 69-year-old barber from Prizren, circumcised a great majority of boys, mostly aged under 5.

Er.

Um.

This really pushes the definition of the word "festival" no?

I can only imagine the barber's window sign in Prizren:

Yup. Just more Serbian.

Fuck!

Looks like my Toledo trip is off.

A new "EPC" light is now on my dashboard. Apparently it has to do with something called the Electronics Program Control and is computer-related. Joy.

Maybe I can find a rental to get to Toledo.

I definitely can't risk taking the Beetle now.

Grrrrrr.

How many times do I have to say that clowns are truly abominations against man and nature?

Don't believe me? Well...

A Rio Grande City man is behind bars after he is accused of exposing himself to young girls -- in one case dressed as a clown.

Detectives say Leonidez Valdez-Junior allegedly exposed himself to an 11-year-old girl last week, he was arrested in Zapata County on similar charges.. Investigators there say Valdez -- who works part-time as "bingo the clown" -- exposed himself to a 13-year-old girl at a private party.

If you ever even once think it is amusing and dress as a clown you are probably a exhibitionist child molester under that sick white makeup!

It is true.

Really.

I won't lie to you.

Clowns are abominations!

So I have an email address that I only used once or twice and all of a sudden, after a year of being inactive, the damn thing has spam coming to it!

How the fuck do the scum do it?

The only way this address could have gotten out would be that it was sold by Bank One/Chase to spammers.

That or spammers some how got a hold of this list.

That address has never been used on a website, a blog comment, or anything!!! I just don't get it!!!

Ok.

We've got a lot of people working here as temporary help during the summer. Some appear to be interns and some are just clerical staff.

Most of them seem to be between 18 and 20 years old.

What's the difference between the kids born in 1970 and these kids born in 1987?

The staff of Naladahc.com would like to officially offer our sincerest thanks and appreciation to the organizers of The Bestival near Newport, Isle of Wight, over in Britain for encouraging attendees to avoid wearing clown outfits.

Clowns are nature's sick cruel abomination to all that is holy and good in the world.

Oh America.

You make me laugh.

I about shit my pants I was laughing so hard at the news articles I was reading this morning.

All the articles were basically along the theme "Is it OK for doctors and parents to tell children and teens they're fat?".

One article says...

Labeling a child obese might "run the risk of making them angry, making the family angry," but it addresses a serious issue head-on, said Dr. Reginald Washington, a Denver pediatrician and co-chairman of an American Academy of Pediatrics obesity task force.

"If that same person came into your office and had cancer, or was anemic, or had an ear infection, would we be having the same conversation?

Now I say this as someone who has had to deal with weight issues since his teen years as well as slackertude his whole life.

Tell the kids they are "sick fat fucks and their lives will be miserable unless they lose the weight" and then let nature take the course it will.

Tax dollars should not be spent on the obese. Obesity should not be cause of any form of disability.

The majority of obesity is the direct result of Americans being sick fat slackers.

And casting illusions on it by calling it "overweight" and other less than pretty, but indirect terms is meaningless.

I've been on the verge of ballistic everytime I see some fat ass with a damn handicapped sticker!

You are not handicapped!

You are more than likely the way you are because you let yourself become a hideous grotesque creature!

I know!

I speak from experience here and not because I have some anti-fat agenda or was the muscle jock football player who picked on your fat ass in high school.

I was a sick fat slacker!!!

And while I've done a lot to change that. I still have a long way to go to not be that way again.

It is a personal choice to do something about it.

In the past few days I've watched 2 men get their taints waxed, 2 men get their balls shocked with electric dog collars, and 2 women get their vaginas shocked with the same shocker.

In my life I've pretty much seen and/or have done everything that I'd want to see or do.

But this?

This may be the most disturbing thing I've seen since the sordid dark ages of my life.

It disturbs me to no end.

Wow!

This week alone I've won the Australian lotter and a European lottery!!!

Hell. I might as well hire somebody to finish the basement now.

Shit.

I shouldn't have removed that parging all the way earlier today.

It is supposed to rain basically all morning tomorrow.

Lovely.

Just lovely.

While that lovely cracking and crumbling wall cover needs to come down, it does indeed keep a lot of the moisture back that might normally come in through the walls.

Balls!!!

So after reading this BBC article I found over at Howling Point, I gotta say I really never gave much throught to the etymology of such a word as "spaz".

According to the article "Golfer Tiger Woods has been criticised for saying he played like 'a spaz'. Can using the word ever be right?".

Of course, people got in an uproar over it since people always get bent out of shape over words. Especially when words such as "spaz" here in the US don't seem to have the same

Now the BBC site Ouch!, a site with focus on the disabled, did an online poll. of the the "disability-related words that they find most offensive". The results?

1. Retard 19.6%
2. Spastic 18%
3. Window-licker 17%
4. Mong 13.4%
5. Special 10.2%
6. Brave 7.9%
7. Cripple 5.5%
8. Psycho 2.9%
9. Handicapped 2.5%
10. Wheelchair-bound 2%

Now perhaps it is a difference of meaning in the US versus England, but some of these must be culturally "British Englishism" since I have no frigg'n clue what some of them are, though I can figure most of them out.

I've never once heard the terms "Window-licker", "Mong", or "Brave" uttered in American English as a term used, derogatory or not, for someone with a physical or mental disability.

I'm assuming that "Mong" is short for the old school term "mongoloid", but "Window-licker" is just plain stupid and I have no frigg'n clue about "Brave" at all, though I'd imagine is as totally devoid of usefulness as "Special".

Now I'll be the first in line to admit that "retard" comes out of my mouth or off my fingers practically every day and you can call me insensitive or whatever you want but I will continue to use the term every day to describe my own actions and those of other Homo sapiens sapiens.

The word "special" does piss me off because it's use as a replacement for "mental retardation" and the like was because it was its own political correct word of its day.

Yesterday's "special" is tomorrow's "learning delayed" and all of them are truly meaningless illusions over conditions that the great majority of human populations don't like to discuss.

George Carlin did a routine a decade or so ago about the dumbing down of words through politically correct bullshit and to this day I still agree with him that by trying to remove words like "cripple" and "handicapped" from use, and replacing them with language such as "learning delayed" and so forth all we as a collective whole have done is hide the severity of conditions under our collective mental carpets.

Politically correct language, for the most part, really is just a means to create more illusions over something that, while not pleasant, is a reality.

Take me for example? While it isn't politically correct in Polonia to call me a "kielbasa-eater", it really is a truthful and accurate derogatory description.

I have been known to eat the kielbasa.

I've consumed massive quantities of kielbasa over the course of my life.

I've been known to eat kielbasa in the kitchen. I've eaten kielbasa in the dining room. I've eaten kielbasa outside. I've eaten kielbasa in bed. And hell, I've eaten my share of kielbasa even in the shower!

Hence, calling me Nala a "kielbasa-eater", while an ugly looking word due to that unsightly hyphen, is in fact a true thing.

Now my father would probably hate to be called a kielbasa-eater even though I know he's eaten a lot of kielbasa.

But me? I embrace the word! I suck it up and love it!

And you know something. If you want you can call me a "special kielbasa-eater" because I've eaten fresh kielbasa, smoked kielbasa, and all other kinds. I'm not a fan of the smoked though. It isn't my thing at all.

Like Chuck said, "Context is relevant. Intentions matter.".

And he's like all legally educated and stuff.

Context does matter. Intentions do matter.

Get through the illusions and get to the heart of the matter and you'll realize that intention of an act is more important than the rest.

Oh wait. It is easier to whine about things instead.

I'm not sure what is creepier: The fact that this scary Richard Cantu guy was arrested on charges he put his cell-phone camera under the skirt of a 12-year-old girl at a store in the Woodville Mall or the fact that Woodville Mall actually still exists in Northwood, OH.

I remember, back in the hey day of 70s mall-mania the Woodville Mall was jam-packed with such awesomeness as a Goodyear Tire place with a talking minah bird, one of those old-school full serve Hickory Farms Stores, an Orange Julius right next to a corn dog place, and there was an great place called Hobby Center where you could get both Micronauts and Star Wars toys and frogs in formaldehyde at the same place!

Woodville Mall, even though it was sorta remote, was my mother's favorite place to shop and I was frequently dragged there to go to JCPenny's, Hudsons, and on the rare occasion Sears.

I swear my mother's wallet single-handedly supported JCPenny's catalog operation there for probably 10 years or so.

The mall also had this insanely huge weird ass 70s water fountain in the center of the place. Then again, I think it was mandatory that all malls built in Glass City in the late 60s and 70s had water fountains everywhere. Hell, Southwyck Mall had like 50 fountains and apparently, even though that mall is dead too, the fountains still run. (We used to cruise endlessly in our cars outside of Southwyck Mall from 1986 to 1988 back in high school. God were we the lame!)

Anyway. Woodville Mall still exists!

Who knew.

And guys are getting arresting there for taking scary prevert pictures.

Anyway, in trying to find links to the malls I found Toilet Net, the Toilet & Urinal Picture Archives. Enjoy!

Oh. And Dead Malls is cool too!

Ok. Now Glass City is tied to the auto industry so if the auto industry collapses, so goes Glass City.

And then today I read "G.M.'s Jobs Bank Looms as Major Obstacle on Road to Survival" and was reminded of something I had totally forgotten about.

Each day, workers report for duty at the plant and pass their time reading, watching television, playing dominoes or chatting. Since G.M. shut down production there last month, these workers have entered the Jobs Bank, industry's best form of job insurance. It pays idled workers a full salary and benefits even when there is no work for them to do.

The Jobs Bank is one critical burden that G.M. has to carry as it embarks on one of the biggest challenges — and biggest balancing acts — of its corporate survival. To become a leaner, more profitable company, it needs to persuade the right number of workers to take the buyouts, without chasing away its best people. If not enough people leave, G.M. is stuck with excess workers, who will swell the ranks of the Jobs Bank.

Hell. With 80% of my department recently layed off I've been up close and personal with just things as of late.

While G.M. has not said it will push to eliminate the Jobs Bank when its contract with the U.A.W. expires, it is no secret that company executives think the program is a drain on its ever-tightening financial resources. With average wages for a factory worker adding up to about $65,000 a year, or $1,250 a week, G.M. is spending about $9.4 million each week to pay the salaries of its idled workers in the Jobs Bank, not including their health care and pension costs.

This is yet another thing that will kill America as most living American's know it.

These are the kinds of "expectations" 'Mericans think they should have and don't understand that this is also the cause of shipping work overseas and destroying the future of this country.

It is all tied together.

Nothing is perfect. But man oh man, this Jobs Bank thing is totally insane.

Why won't these communist-terrorist scientists just give up.

He's said that the jury is still out on global warming and god, Jesus, and baby Jesus told him he was destined to be in charge.

Therefore, there is no such thing as global warming.

Fucking commie-terrorist freedom and democracy-hating bastards!

Um. So apparently back in January I was using Google's Froogle to look up Transformers and Doctor Who DVDs.

Quite frankly I have no recollection of it since I'm not apt to use Froogle for Transformers at all and usually go directly to Amazon for DVDs.

Anyway, I was playing around with Google trying to see if I could get a Google Page account and happened to find some kind of shopping list that Google recorded from searches or something.

While I agree with the toy Transformers and Doctor Who episode things I can't say I recall ever looking up "The Cock Doctor" for purchase.

What the fuck?!?!?!?

While some people have a fear of them I just downright disdain them, not finding them funny in the slightest bit.

Circus clowns are sick and perverse and abominations against nature.

So what does my mother do?

Send me a birthday card with this image.

She really loves me doesn't she.

Cable net abruptly pulls repeat of Scientology episode (Variety)

Comedy CentralComedy Central abruptly pulled a repeat of that episode that was scheduled to air Wednesday evening...

While the "South Park" creators didn't directly comment on Comedy Central's decision to pull the episode, they issued an unusual statement to Daily Variety indicating the battle is not over.

"So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun! Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies. Curses and drat! You have obstructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail! Hail Xenu!!!"

The duo signed the statement "Trey Parker and Matt Stone, servants of the dark lord Xenu."

I guess we'll just have to resort to the Bible and such.

Underground "White" Market Growing (ONN)

People are buying illegal "un-pasteurized dairy" in secret, ONN affiliate WNWO reports.

Ohio and Michigan banned sales of milk straight from the cow years ago due to health concerns.

Many consumers are now turning to buying it illegally in Ohio.

It is bad enough that humans consume milk products when the default for the majority of the species is lactose-intolerance.

It if just funny that government trys to regulate such things. It reeks of "think of the children" mentality.

However, that being said, a very funny episode of Chef! comes to mind in which Gareth tries to track down an unpasteurized cheese.

Hah! I love the hypocrisy of it all!

Since this Friday happens to be Doctor Who premiere night St. Patrick's Day, Catholics in Glass City won't be confined to eternal punishment in hell for eating meat this Friday during any celebrations.

This year, the holiday that honors the Apostle of Ireland - who converted most of Ireland to Christianity in the 5th century - happens to fall on a Lenten Friday. Since one of the main ingredients for St. Paddy's Day in the United States is a Jiggs dinner - a robust meal made with corned beef, cabbage, and potatoes - Irish Catholics would be facing a quandary if it were not for the foresight of church leaders.

The Toledo diocese granted a dispensation allowing meat on St. Patrick's Day but, in ex-change, Catholics who want their Jiggs dinners tomorrow - or a steak or hamburger, for that matter - must abstain from meat today.

If there was a diety-derived absolute law send down from the invisible heavens about abstaining from meat on Friday, then lowly humans (in the form of their priest-minister masters) can't give special dispensation to change such things.

What's the point in being "god-fearing" if the little details can be changed on whim because a traditional drunken food orgy fest of a "holiday" conflicts with it?

It is the same as the religions that practice "fasting from sunrise to sundown". There's really no sacrifice or inconvenience for a human to do this. I think anybody that calls themselve christian should have to fast for 40 days and 40 nights just like the New Testament says Jesus did!

Then again, that would be too hard.

Religious belief only works for Homo sapiens sapiens when it doesn't conflict with convenience.

The forthcoming collapse of modern petroleum-derived civilization will be a good test for this.

Oh. And today is the 38th anniversary of the My Lai Massacre in Viet Nam in which American soldiers killed over 500 primarily old men, women, children, and babies.

Yeah. This country would never be complicit in war crimes!

Oh religion! Oh humanity! Oh insanity!

Sometimes shit happens that makes you question the validity of your existence.

Sometimes shit happens that makes you question the validity of your accepting that other people have an independent existence from you.

And sometimes shit happens that makes you completely realize that sometimes there is nothing wrong with the herd being thinned out of those who can't even be remotely called "human".

Case in point, the recent Northeastern Cowlands dreg vermin named Henry Sunderman, accused of raping and killing his 7-month-old niece.

Yes. You read that right. Raping and killing his 7-month-old niece.

Now I typically give people the benefit of the doubt about their "supposed" actions.

People are constantly accused of things that they didn't do. Memory isn't exact. Humans are rarely and totally accurate.

But this fine specimen of Homo sapiens sapiens admitted these actions to the police. The medical examiner’s office has not ruled on a cause of death yet but this is just a true horror if in fact this occurred.

I cannot feel any compassion for this man.

You do not admit to something like this unless you actually did it.

How quickly will his family turn on him if the medical report shows that she was raped and murdered!

I can't believe I missed this bizarro news.

You know that I love to provide you with the finest events occuring in Glass City and Cowtown so I really feel sorry about missing this one.

Man Hides In Bathrooms, Drinks Boys' Urine (nbc4i.com)

"Listening to his describe it, it's like listening to a crack or cocaine addict. He's addicted to children's urine," Fithen said.

Oy koledy!

Yup! Like the state branding motto says ... Ohio... the heart of it all!

We got everything here in the Cowlands and that includes your basic crazy 54 year-old boy urine drinking freak!

Yup! We like to keep "heart" in "heart of it all" as loosly vague as possible. Wouldn't want to offend or scare of the West Virginians or the Indianers.

Only in this fine country of the US of A can you be bored enough and aimless enough at 17 to beat a homeless guy to death with a baseball bat, then severely injuring another one with a golf club, all the while being videotaped doing it.

Then... have the balls to plead not guilty!

Oh America. I love you!

Oh Homo sapiens sapiens!!! I love you more!!!

In court, the teens' attorneys described each youth as contrite and upset about what had happened.

"He's got the weight of the world on his shoulders," said Daugherty's attorney, Michael Gottlieb. "He definitely feels bad."

Cry me a river you spoiled aimless wastes of flesh.

These kinds of things will only increase.

Jesus totally hates America now.

Well it isn't urine. That much I think is certain.

As of lunchtime it still hadn't frozen.

Whatever it is has pissed me off all day.

Grrrr.

I came out to the car this morning and there was some "liquid" running down the driver's side door.

Now either somebody intentionally picked my car to deposit this "liquid" on or it was a random event.

In my neighborhood, with past events, one has to wonder.

But the strange thing is that it starts at the top of my window. This would be a very difficult task if someone had peed on my car. He'd have to be 7 foot tall or have a 12 penis or so to be able to reach that far up onto the window.

It had to have happened recently this morning since it was 22 degrees out and it wasn't frozen.

Of course, normally I would have been out the door around 5am but since my foot hurts I decided to skip the gym this morning.

Lovely.

Just lovely.

The gayest gay that ever gayed a gay?

Please throw bleach in my eyes now!!!

And after that, rub ammonia in them.

So I got this email from Travelocity that I actually read instead of deleting.

In it I get wonderful offers for round-trip fares from Cowtown to destinations elsewhere.

Care to see what wonderful hot spots I can got to for less than $200?

Appleton $178+
Des Moines $178+
Grand Rapids $178+
Green Bay $178+
Kansas City $178+
Madison $178+
Milwaukee $158+
Minneapolis/St. Paul $178+
Omaha $178+
Wausau/Stevens Point $178+

*sigh*

The Midwest sucks balls.

So my two 21" CRTs that I use as one monitor for my workstation have been upgraded to two 20" Dell LCD's and I've pretty much learned I don't do well with LCDs.

I've only been using them for 10 minutes and already my eyes hurt and I have a headache.

I've tried different resolutions and they either look blurry and they make print graphics even look questionable.

Grrrrr...

This is not going to be fun.

Um. Sorry. You did suck! And I only just know from this clip!

Nickelodeon, Kellogg Targets of Lawsuit (SFgate) [via]

Advocacy groups and parents are suing the Nickelodeon TV network and cereal maker Kellogg Co. in an effort to stop junk food marketing to kids.

Wakefield, Mass., mother Sherri Carlson said she tries her best to get her three kids to eat healthy foods.

"But then they turn on Nickelodeon and see all those enticing junk-food ads," Carlson said. "Adding insult to injury, we enter the grocery store and see our beloved Nick characters plastered on all those junky snacks and cereals."

The slacker parent. Oh how I love them.

And honestly. I think a lot of the people born between 1970 and 1985 are or are going to be the worst parents.

A food industry-backed group defended the companies, saying the lawsuit assumes that parents can't turn off televisions, have no control over the food they buy and can't make their kids go outside to play.

That would mean they would have to be parents now wouldn't they. It is easier being a slacker.

And in disturbing change of events this photo of Evebird is now my most viewed Flickr photo.

*sigh*

Can I be allowed to ritually slaughter a few sheep and goats to the great ancient pastoral dieties so that they may continue to interfere in the childish antics and magic of the retarded predmoninant hominid species on this planet.

Please!

In this corner, weighing in at what looks like about 130 lbs, Randal McCloy Jr, survivor of the coal mine accident.

In this corner, Ariel Sharon, stroke laden decaying Israeli Prime Minister.

The 24 Hour News Vermin didn't quite seem to know how to drop the Randal McCloy story in light of the Sharon drama that theoretically they can milk more crap out of.

It is ridiculous.

Things were ho-hum because of the holidays and then the News Vermin went all bad craziness over the collapse of a mine (that isn't all that rare of an occurence). The past few days media vermin frenzy, made even more insane by the misinformation about who died and who lived, was like watching vultures in the Sahara. Insane!

The whole mine incident will fade from the greater public consciousness by early next week. Unless of course Randal McCloy ends up not surviving this. Then it'll be until a week from today.

But Ariel Sharon is a tough fighter and has claimed the brunt of the news vermin coverage now. Thankfully he had to be readmitted to surgery again which boosted his rating even higher.

If he dies, it'll be fantastic for CNN, MSNBC, the main 3, and even the poopy asshole of news channels FOX. We'll get all kinds of drama over who will or won't attend the funeral, if there is a state one, since so many in the Middle East hate Israel.

The news vermin can haul out their special commentators. Larry King can have on celebrities talking about the state of affairs in the Middle East after Sharon's death. It'll be classic television folks!

The miners? Who? Oh. That was so last week!

Hell. Good old Pat Robertson might even offer some words of wisdom with a depth of insight rarely seen these days in these compassionate conservative christian times..

Huh? Oh. Great. He seems to already have chimed in.

And as usual, Mr. Robertson says best what we all fear to say. He's a good decent human. Please send him some money.

So. Any of you following to new David Letterman drama involving the woman granted a restraining order against him?

She...

...contends the CBS late-night host used code words to show he wanted to marry her and train her as his co-host.

A state judge granted a temporary restraining order to Colleen Nestler, who alleged in a request filed last Thursday that Letterman has forced her to go bankrupt and caused her "mental cruelty" and "sleep deprivation" since May 1994.

Nestler's application for a restraining order was accompanied by a six-page typed letter in which she said Letterman used code words, gestures and "eye expressions" to convey his desires for her.

She wrote that she began sending Letterman "thoughts of love" after his "Late Show" began in 1993, and that he responded in code words and gestures, asking her to come East.

She said he asked her to be his wife during a televised "teaser" for his show by saying, "Marry me, Oprah." Her letter said Oprah was the first of many code names for her and that the coded vocabulary increased and changed with time.

Um. Yeah. Ok.

Not only does the woman have severe mental issues and probably no life whatsoever, the judge who ruled in favor of this restraining order must also be mentally incompetent if he based such a thing as the reasons for this because of mental telepathy, code words over the television, and all around good old christian-sounding magic.

This is yet another real example of why this country has already collapsed.

Yes. Already collapsed.

Who would steal hundreds of toys intended for Cowtown's neediest children? Other Cowlanders of course!!!

Go Cowtown! Go Cowtown!

Steal from children! Steal from Children!

Go Bucks!!!

I should donate some extra Transformers I have.

A nationwide recall has been issued regarding bone and tissue products that have been used in transplantation. Those products have found their way into patients here in Central Ohio. (ONN)

Exactly how does one "recall" bone and tissue products that have been transplanted?!??!

The bone and tissue products, which are used for anything from bone fillers to skin grafts, have the potential of carrying infectious disease. Apparently the donors weren't screened properly but the company has assured the FDA that the products completed a strenuous cleaning process before they were distributed.

I just find it all so insane.

Then again, I find more and more things insane and absurd on a day to day basis.

'Safe' painkiller is leading cause of liver failure (NewScientist)

Paracetamol (or acetaminophen as it is known in the US) is used by millions of Americans each year, and is commonly thought to be safe. Until 1980, paracetamol was not even listed as a cause of acute liver failure. But between 1998 and 2003, the proportion of cases of liver failure caused by the drug nearly doubled.

Oh joy. That's the kind of good news 'Murkins love. Especially for something that has been on the market for ages.

Now I'm a plain old aspirin taker for the most part. The poor conditions of my knees requires me to take something about 3-4 times a week or else I'll be a very hurty wreck. I know my mother has always been a Tylenol chick so she's consumed massive quantities of acetaminophen over her life time.

Lee thinks American drug enforcers should follow the lead of the UK, which requires products that contain acetaminophen to be packaged in blister packets and sold in small quantities. "I think we should talk about limiting package size," says Lee. "You can buy 500 at a time. They're like M&Ms."

How dare someone tell the US how to possibly deal with overdoses of this. Who the hell do those kidney pie eaters think they are trying to tell god's chosen people what to do with their lives? The gall of those limeys.

And when acetaminophen-related liver damage deaths start rising in the US we'll sue those boiled meat eating bastards for publicizing that acetaminophen overdose can cause problems!

I've decided that for Christmas presents I'll be utilizing the services of BreathCapture™ to capture my breath in a glass vial and then giving you all these photo displays so that you will always remember that it was I who wasted so much money on quite possibly the lamest gift ever.

You can then display it on your desk at home or at work. You can put it on a shelf in your living room or even on the back of the toilet in your bathroom.

However I will come right out and admit that I do love some of you more than others and after I die, those of you who I love more than I love others will get my ashes turned into jewelry courtesy of Lifegem.

Now understand, there may not be a whole lot of my cremated remains left after I have Giga mix my ashes into the coffee to be served to my enemies at my wake. But rest assured, for those that get a Naladeathgem™, you can be proud to display it next to photo and breath vial on the back of your toilet tank.

Woman mistakes cheese for cocaine, hilarity no doubt ensued. (ONN)

Police in Memphis, Tennessee, say a woman mistook a block of cheese for cocaine -- and tried to hire a hit man to kill four men and steal it. Police say the 18-year-old woman was mistaken about the hit man, too. He was an undercover policeman... Authorities say the aspiring model was in the men's house recently when she saw the white, crumbly cheese that she thought was cocaine.

These are the kinds of events that happen within Homo sapiens sapiens that bring both a smile to my face and simultaneously a tear to my eye.

Remember when I got pissed that my gym membership reimbursement got taxed worse than payoll?

Of course you do. You remember everything in my life.

Well today I get stopped in the hall by someone in accounting who recognized my last name. She informed me that a $20 Starbucks gift card I was given 3 or so weeks ago as a thank you for project work I did is actually now considered taxable and that the company would pay the taxes this time.

WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!?!

The next time I'm given a "reward" as acknowledgement of contributing something I have to pay tax on it.

FUCK THAT SHIT!!!

First off, I didn't ask for anything to be given to me in the form of a reward or thank you.

Secondly, I hate Starbucks coffee and do not buy anything from Starbucks at all. This was probably going to be regifted to someone anyway.

Thirdly, the Federal Government can tax a fucking $20 gift card given to me as a reward but don't seem to have problems with all the corporate whores and vermin bilking the U.S. out of billions in tax revenue every year.

FUCK THAT SHIT!!!

I just received an email from an editor which basically said "Mathlab is not on your list of Acceptable File Formats. Can we accept it?" and I'm having a moment.

"Mathlab is not on your list of Acceptable File Formats. Can we accept it?"

Arghhhhhh!!!

Marble Falls From Building's Facade, Spurring Theories of Symbolism (Washington Post)

...some couldn't help but note that the tumbling piece chipped at a carved marble figure that represents "Authority."

"I think God is smiting the GOP," wrote a blogger on a political Web site, using the online handle "OhMy."

On another political blog, a writer who calls himself "Christian Soldier" shot back: "It's because God wants Alito on the Court. You guys don't know how to read portents."

Oh can't you all just die off.

It is called age and gravity you magic-believing fucktards!

If it was magic or portents affecting the world I would listen to the voices in my head and you all know what where that would lead.

So I ripped out Cybertron Defense Red Alert out of his packaging but I've come to the conclusion that trying to touch him, let along transform him, is just way too disturbing!!!

I need to go wash my hands with bleach now.

It is snowing outside.

We are supposed to possibly get up to 2-4" today.

It will be the first substantial snow of the season.

I hate snow.

I hate winter.

I forget how much I hate the Cowlands until it snows and the temperature drops below 50.

Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

At least I have the next 4 days off.

So let me get this straight.

I've finally gotten around to catching up with El Presidente's $7.1 billion "bird flu" plan where he wants to give billions to his pharmaceutical masters to prevent a disease that hasn't hit the U.S. or claimed one 'Murkin life yet.

This H5N1 bird influenza virus is rare and the only humans that have succumbed to it have had extremely close contact with infected fowl. The virus doesn't appear to easily transfer between species but could.

Let me write this down for posterity here: This $7.1 billion dollar fear plan is to prevent a disease that could ... and here's the key word... mutate and kill billions of humans.

If El Presidente is showing acknowledgement of the fact that organisms mutate, then one would have to assume that this $7.1 billion is being spent in a sense to affirm the fact that evolution is indeed real and is happening. Hell. It is obviously imminent in terms of mutating avian influenzas.

Or is it just that this fucking no- tax and big-spend vermin whore's big pharma masters need more cash because they are jealous that the oil companies got to post big profits and the drug industry only got a couple of class action lawsuits against Vioxx?

All I can say is that I hope Dover, PA doesn't get hit with the mutated strain of this avian flu now that Pat "You Poor Idiots Must Give Me More Money" Robertson put Dover on God's shitlist.

But take it from me Dover, I've been on the shitlist since I was about 12. Not only "God", but El, Elohim, Jehovah, YHWH, Allah, Baal, and all the others that have sprung forth from those early ancient semetic magic beliefs have put me on one list or another. (But St. Jude and Ganesh love me.)

Ok. I'm not a gamer.

I've tried. I've even purchased a system or two.

But I get bored within 10 minutes or so with video games so I don't even bother.

But I read something today over at The Inquirer that even shocked me.

A PATENT may allow Sony to ensure that no game would be playable from any console other than the one in which it was first read.

Joystiq is reporting that this patent is the source of the many rumours that will mean as much to gamers as DRM is for music fans.

The technology would allow an authentication code to be read and then rendered unreadable, making the software unplayable on any machine but the one which first read it.

If such a thing occurs I can see gamers pissed off beyond all belief.

At the cost of some of these games, you can't even get rid of them if your $60 bought you a boring ass piece of shit.

That is some scary shit indeed.

Oh Corporate Digital Rights Management, your slaves are bent over awaiting your massive throbbing rape.

Unfortunately today I am stuck without being able to listen to yesterday's Howard so it was either talk radio or actual craptastic local radio.

I'm stuck listening to the horrible Blitz morning show and my god I feel dirty, vulgar, and fat (but that's not necessarily because of the radio show).

This kind of show, fueled by lame ass Ohio Sate Buckeyes football shit and low-level rural redneck humor, just doesn't make my day feel healthy.

I never feel this way with the Stern show humor that most would find low-level. That is something that my inner monologue will need to analyze a bit more.

The Blitz's Grego is aimlessly grating, Shannon is just a talking vagina with no purpose, and Mo, the only redeeming thing on the show, comes off as a really bad oreo to me to the point I just want to bang my head on the monitor and put bleach in my ears.

I'd rather suffer through the way-past their prime Wags & Elliot on QFM96 but I can't seem to get a steady signal in my office. NCI's Morning Zoo crap is only a step above the Blitz shit so I'll pass on that.

Cowtown radio... your music and personality wasteland...

I guess I'll go back to listening to a stream of the horrible Springer on the Radio.

There are times when that 20GB iPod actually makes sense. Expensive sense. But sense nonetheless.

So when I got my gym membership I did so with the understanding that I would get 50% of that back with my organization's "fitness reimbursement" program.

I was supposed to get around $264.11 back.

Today I get a check back for $159.39.

They treat the reimbursement as taxable fucking INCOME!!! And taxed at one helluva fucking higher rate to boot!

So I got taxed when I got the membership by the state of Ohio and then I fucking get taxed AGAIN when I get reimbused for the suppsed benefit that is part of my working here.

WHAT THE FUCK!!!

Yes. I suppose I should be happy I get something back to begin with.

But man... fuck it!

And then I clicked on the link and now have to wash my eyes out.

Quite possibly I may have to use bleach too.

Oh Casey man. The horror. The horror.

Not even Max Power, in the retarded hey days of the early 1990s, would have thought of such horrible attire.

I need to find me a Catholic church and confess to a priest now. I totally feel so dirty.

Of course I just realized that finally getting my new templates fully working has somehow resulted in my Typekey authentication not working.

What the hell did I do to piss off the Moirae these past 2 weeks?

Is it because I've become a slacker again?

It is because I haven't budged one finger on finishing the back bedroom?

It is because my weight loss has been stuck for almost 2 months?

What the hell did I do?

Ok. This is the first and last time I am wearing this shirt.

I found it on the clearance rack at Target for $3.98 or something and I didn't realize how much horrible green it has in it.

I really really hate this shade of green.

I seriously looked at it while adjusting my shirt in the bathroom and I'm totally paranoid now that everybody is staring at this horribly green/blue plaid shirt.

Arghhhhhh!!! I hate this shirt!!!

If you are a frequent reader of my site you know that I'm a firm believer that the collapse of modern Homo sapiens sapiens society and culture is in fact a very visible and tangible thing.

If you expand your awareness beyond your closed little reality you can see the actual foundations of a solid human culture collapsing around us. Piece by piece. Block by block. Strand by strand. It is all coming down like the nursury rhyme says: "ashes.. ashes... we all fall down".

I've given many examples to you and yet you still do not believe!

The Supreme Court shed its staid image Tuesday, giving stripper-turned Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith a new chance at a piece of the fortune of her 90-year-old late husband.

The court said it would hear arguments early next year as part of Smith's effort to collect as much as $474 million from the estate of J. Howard Marshall II. The oil tycoon married her in 1994 when he was 89 and she was 26.

The case promises to be the sexiest of the nine-month term which begins next week.

But when the United States Supreme Court essentially is taking a case of what essentially amounts to a white trash stripper golddigging from a man who is decades and decades older than her we have substantial problems with the fabric of our 'Merican reality.

What more obvious doy-moment does one need?

This is a state's rights issue. This is not a federal issue.

Supreme Court sessions should also not be talked about in terms of how "sexy" they are!

A whore is a whore and a the rights of the state are the rights of the state.

I'm no lawyer. I'm exploring potential paths to getting a law degree but inherent common sense and common deceny are all that is at play here.

I so need to listen to some Rage Against The Machine right now.

Note to Nala: When it is 60 degrees out (now that it is Autumn here in the Cowlands) do not wear this beige polo shirt. When your nipples get hard it is really really obvious.

n10zguy on the an Allspark thread wrote...

True Story... I was at the Chicago Wizard World 2003 and was talking with some people whom I'd just seen at the OTFCC a week or 2 prior and we were joking about the bad smelling people we'd encountered so far at both conventions. We said it'd be really cool to have an exclusive for next year be a deorodrant stick that transformed into a robot (and ironically name him Windbreaker!). I had just made the comment that with all the money people bring to buy pointless crap at the conventions, you'd think they could buy a stick of deordorant, when out of nowhere this one particularly rotund boy, as serious as a heart attack, looked at us and said:

"What you dont understand is that for the cost of a stick of deodorant, I can get a couple more comics"

Not a one.

Then again, this show has a bit more breathing room than your typical comic book show and such.

Ok Max. Every email I send to you gets bounced back with "Technical details of permanent failure: PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 12): 550 5.7" so I'm giving up.

Do you have a non-work home email address? I don't even know if you use a computer from home.

I've got a picture I need to send you that'll bring up great memories.

And... I invited you to breakfast and the toy show via email but that got bounced back too.

Breakfast at German Village Kaffe Haus tomorrow at 8am and then geeking at the toy show afterwards.

Hmmm. Is this how the forthcoming poksiclips begins?

Three laboratory mice infected with the bacterium that causes bubonic plague have been discovered missing from the campus of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey...

...It remains unclear whether the animals were stolen, eaten by other lab animals, or simply misplaced...

...State Health Commissioner Fred Jacobs told the newspaper that mice infected with plague typically die very quickly, calling the risk to public safety "slim to none."...

Thomas Jefferson said...

"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government in a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."

Or have they?

Now this is extremely depressing.

As if the whole pet/animal mess in the South can get any worse than it already is.

A prominent Israeli rabbi said that the hurricane was God's punishment for Bush's role in forcing Israelis to leave the Gaza Strip.

"It was God's retribution. God does not short-change anyone," Ovadia Yosef, a former chief rabbi of Israel, said during his weekly sermon on Tuesday.

The Jews sure pissed god off so badly 1873 years earlier or the Romans wouldn't have removed them from Judea.

And let's not forget that little issue with the Babylonians 2639 years ago too.

God. Hating everybody and everything everyday.

What god wants god gets god help us all!

Chief Justice Rehnquist Dies at 80 (New York Times)

This is so not what I needed to read as soon as I got up this morning.

Now we can get more demon worshipping magic users on the court.

Yay!

Gasoline is now $3.09-$3.29 here in the Cowlands.

Bad, but not unexpected, kraziness.

And it will never really go down again.

There's too much revenue to be made.

Well it now costs around $30 to fill up ye olde Deluxe Luxury Volkswagen New Beetle of Love (with optional Decepticon symbol on hatch window).

$30 just seems like so much since I remember when $15 filled it up just over a year ago.

Well 'Merica? Welcome to the price the rest of the world pays for petrol.

You voted for it.

Hydraulic despotism... how I love thee!

And then I laughed...

Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson suggested on-air that American operatives assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez...

Pat Robertson. Oh what a moral and ethical man you are.

And oh how the flames of hell await you for all eternity.

Well. That. Or beheading on the set of The 700 Club.

Paxil increases suicide risk: report (CNN)

Yay! More drugs show new suicide risks merely by taking them.

Note to world: Living causes potential for suicide. Having to interact with other members of the same species or not having them around can cause suicidal tendencies.

Now quit bitching about big Pharma and start delving into more important issues such as the shitty Botcon exclusive figures and Nala getting screwed by them!

Look that up in your Funk & Wagnalls!

My opinions on capital punishment vary from issue to issue.

But I really believe that the horrors perpetrated by this Dennis Rader vermin deserve more than for him to spent the remainder of his life in prison supported by the State.

The man is vermin in the same way that corporate executives who disregard the environment for profit are vermin. Yes. I see very little difference between the actions of these kinds of people.

He needs to be placed in a sound proof room and each relative of his victims should be allowed on at a time with a weapon.

They can do anything they want for 5 minutes short of killing him.

And then... he deserves to be flung into a room devoid of sound and light for the rest of his "life". And any food given to him will be a slurry of calories barely enough to sustain matabolism.

His punishment for his horrible crimes must teach a lesson to others.

Not just locking him up in a cell to be fed and cared for by the State.

This man is the face of usless human dreck.

And even my prescription for punishment isn't even adequate for the horrors this man has inflicted remorselessly against other humans.

I mean... what kind of punishment can you even give. There's no chance for making a sick pathetic demented individual like this have any real remorse or contrition for what he did.

And therein lies the viscious cycle of capital punishment. It exists because there's nothing better. Nothing to teach the real lessons needed to be taught.

Guess who's back popping up in trees this week?

Ok. Over the past few days Incredibly Too Tan Creepy Old Gay Guy (ITTCOGG) has moved from the one side of the locker room to the locker I have used every single day since I got my gym membership.

What the phrock is up with that?

I noticed over the past week or so he's been getting closer and closer to my locker and today he was right next to me.

I am there before the gym even opens so there's only about 5 of us in the parking lot and 3 are usually women. Seventy other damn lockers open in the morning and ITTCOGG has to take one next to mine?

Grrrr...

I don't like ITTCOGGs. I never have. I never will. I merely tolerate them like I tolerate other things.

And ITTCOGG needs to get his ITTCOGG-ass back over to the other side of the locker room.

Please get over it and just start teaching spells, incantations, proper animal sacrifice on altars, astrology, and stop this silly belief in natural order, evolution, mathematics, physics, and this laughable science.

The Earth is flat, the center of the universe, and giving money to those who tell you this is a good thing.

I really really want to read these books.

I think I'd be partial to Jesus Goes To The Synagogue and Great American Negroes.

Mary Magdalene has appeared in a local man's bald spot.

I'm tempted to go visit him and light a candle.

So I've updated the 2005 Official Nala Death Pool due to the beaming up of a certain typecast actor.

To my knowledge, it is a 3-way tie between Giga, Max Power, and myself and I don't recall anybody else on other people's lists biting it.

He's popping up in Peruvian sand dunes now! I mean, if Google says so it must be true no?

Turning Off The Jesus Light

A town in Indiana has turned off a streetlight that drew hundreds of people to see a shadow that some say looked like Jesus Christ...

...People have flocked to the site since Wednesday, when a woman first claimed to see the image on the side of a tree. It's only visible at night when the streetlight near the tree is on.

I really should have froze that bowel movement that looked like Ganesh, Elijah, Woden, Shiva, and Rao playing poker. I could have put that on ebay and made a fortune!

It wasn't as cool as this appearance though.

Recent awesome spam sender names to file away for future use:

Snored L. Bluntest
Amundsen H. Detoxed
Velours F. Peripatetic
Daguerre T. Clapper
Invaders A. Palladio
Belisi Clothiers
Feisty M. Topology
Docket T. Republish
Raoul B. Incubates
Majestically H. Fizeau
Spectacular H. Vivekananda
Photosynthesis Q. Psyche
Sulks T. Ascendent
Party B. Sterilizer
Disrupts G. Childhood
Sanford J. Pickett (hmmm... relative of The Pickett?)
Wendell H. Underwood

Good quality shit here. I especially love the obligatory middle initial.

Man oh man I never really look at this main yahoo account anymore due to the spam. Hell, I cleaned it out Friday and it is already at 3000+ pieces, most of them with Mr. Hoonty in the name.

Now I always use this account and Mr. H. Hoonty as the name every time some site forces me to register for some shit. And within days of having to register the spam increases.

Registering for anything online is pretty much a crapshoot and I'd say 95% results in getting spammed.

It has been years since I could actually use this email address for anything.

And man... the spam seems split between 50% mortgage shit, 40% really fucked up porn crap, and 10% misellenous other shit.

I'm gathering that when I started looking to buy a house 3 years ago I signed up at various mortgage places under this account. Then again, it could be random.

I sorta-kinda have been following the drama of Bonnie Little and her filthy home and children but until Max Power sent me a new link I hadn't really watched any video on it.

Oh god!

Bonnie Little is a veritable role model of an American mother and homemaker.

Obviously she's dirt poor. But what I can't really ever understand is why being dirt poor so often equates to living in filth. I just don't seem to possess the capacity to see why the two should always seem to be linked. If you can afford a TV you can afford a broom, thrift store vacuum, and generic Odd Lot Lysol.

In looking at the videos and pictures there is obvious some discrepancy between what Bonnie Little says is reality and what is reality.

Personally I'm all about the fact there was a 4 foot alligator living in the garage.

I mean. This is Cowtown here. Alligators don't like snow and icy winters so we can definitely say this isn't a local resident.

And pssst... Bonnie... babies in shitty diapers that are practically naked, children eating out of the trash, alligators in the garage, maggots, and neighbors with video cameras do not mix. Let this be an important lesson to you. And if you are that fat, then you are obviously getting enough calories. Make sure the kids are fed too.

Also, where's daddy in all of this? C'mon. Five babies must mean she's in a stable loving god-sanctioned marriage.

The Southern Cowlanders rock more than us Central Cowlanders...

Elijah Walker's hearing in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Wednesday sounded more like a science-fiction movie than a sentence for cocaine possession.

Walker said he wanted to plead guilty, even though he'd have to serve six months in prison.

But he raised an issue Judge Melba Marsh hadn't heard before: He didn't want to give a sample of his DNA, fearing the state might use it to clone him.

"I don't know what you're going to do with it," Walker told the judge. "You could do all kinds of things with it. I just know I have to protect it."

"Uh-huh," the 35-year-old Price Hill man said skeptically.

We're work'n a really good super-mega Repugger vibe here with lotsa warehouse christianity popping up all over too boot.

Cloning would require scientific knowledge and we are almost done throwing science to the wolves.

Oh great. Whores and vermin. Whores and vermin everywhere.

Coke's China '05 sales growth exceeds '04 (Washington Post)

Coca-Cola Co., which currently counts China as its fifth-largest market by sales, has struggled for years to revive sluggish soft drink sales in its more developed markets...

It plans to bring Coke and other products -- from Nestea to Minute Maid juice -- to the 80 percent of China's 1.3 billion people that live in the vast countryside.

China has proved a tough market to crack for beverage makers due to a die-hard tea drinking culture and a traditional aversion to cold drinks, believed by many to be unhealthy.

The average Chinese takes in just 12 soft drink servings a year, versus 150 in Hong Kong, executives have said. Indeed, packaged teas comprise 35 percent of the soft drinks market in China.

Is Coke trying to do this to truly make as much profit prior to our Chinese masters taking over the world?

Hmm...

How long can we export our shit before someone finally says "I won't be a part of your US shitification"?

Well looks like it is that time of the year again.

Pssst... humans:

Let me tell you something. If you go swimming in the ocean you may encounter a predator. You are in the predator's territory and environment. You human are not native to the ocean. Jesus will not help you. There is no magic involved.

Pssst... humans:

Let me tell you something. If you build your house in a floodplain near a river with a known history of flooding there's a very good chance your house and all your possessions will be destroyed in a flood. You are in a geographic and topographic area that serves the purpose of flooding and an increase in water within the river. Jesus will not help you. There is no magic involved.

Pssst... humans:

Let me tell you something. If certain pale faced eccentric muscial entertainers have had young male child molestation charges against them in the past it probably isn't a good idea to let your young male children around said pale faced eccentric muscial entertainer. You are placing the boy in the predator's territory and environment. Jesus will not help you. Nor will the justice system. There is no magic involved.

Pssst... humans:

Let me tell you something. When your leader, not known for speaking publically often because of his mental retardation, throws a press conference the evening before pictures and data of prisoner abuse and torture are supposed to be released you should suspect marketing and attempts at magic. Jesus will not help you. Nor will the justice system. Nor will anybody. You might as well go out and buy some anal-ease. You are going to be fucked and that's just the way they like it.

Awesome new porn spam name came through my one Yahoo account today: Wharton O. Presbyterians.

I need to file that one away for future use.

Oh joy. Here we go again. This time in a Grovetucky, a suburb of Cowtown.

Man Sees 'Angel' In Shoulder MRI (nbc4i)

"To me, it looked like an angel," Schreiner said. "A lot of people are going to say, 'Yeah, it's just a coincidence.' But if you take a good look at it, it looks like an angel to me, all right."

Schreiner's angel is located near where he felt the pain.

What he sees is important to him, and is not that unusual, according to Rev. David Meredith, of the Broad Street United Methodist Church in Columbus.

"It's always been important to us, as human beings, to understand the divine, the presence of God in our midst in this world," Meredith said.

For Schreiner, the image of the angel inside of him is important.

"I've always felt I've been blessed," he said. "Maybe this is why."

I so fucking with the rapture would come and take these fucks off the planet.

Keep on believing in magic and living in fear of the unknown on your flat earth that is at the center of the universe!!! Keep on believing what others tell you to believe.

Fucking cows.

I am so happy that I managed to snag petrol this morning at $1.85/gallon at Speedway.

As I was coming home today I noticed it is now $2.15/gallon, a whole 30 cent spike.

I've learned a very important lesson: Not matter how much you have in your tank you should top it off if you see cheap petrol.

And I find it funny that so few people have any blame to place on the fact that the administration of this country has been and always will be run by oil whores.

See. The higher the domestic gas prices will go (and I firmly believe they are artificially manipulated since there is no regulation) the easier it will be to sway the general fodder population into saying that drilling is healthy in environments such as the Alaskan refuge and such.

Yeah. This is oh so much a natural occurence.

Not that regulation would matter. If the whores are the ones doing the regulating it wouldn't matter what diseases would be passed on.

Back in January I ranted about the Fear Factor law suit.

At least there is still some sense around these here parts.

A judge threw out a lawsuit in which a viewer sued NBC for $2.5 million, contending that he threw up because of a "Fear Factor" episode in which contestants ate rats mixed in a blender.

U.S. District Judge Lesley Wells called Austin Aitken's lawsuit frivolous and warned him against appealing.

Ohio law would regulate eBay sellers - Law may require costly, time-consuming auction license for Ohio online sellers; changes vowed. (CNN)

And all I have to say is FUCK THAT SHIT!!!

The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that the law, signed by Gov. Robert Taft on Feb. 1, was meant to insure that auctioneers were abiding by the established rules and regulations. The law, as written, requires Ohio residents who sell products online to get a state auction license.

Besides costing $200 and posting a $50,000 bond, the license requires a one-year apprenticeship to a licensed auctioneer, acting as a bid-caller in 12 auctions, attending an approved auction school, passing a written and oral exam. Failure to get a license could result in the seller being fined up to $1,000 and jailed for a maximum of 90 days.

The primary author of the legislation, State Sen. Larry Mumper, told the paper the legislature never intended it to apply to individuals selling items over eBay. But Mumper, while vowing changes, couldn't say exactly who would or would not be exempt from the license requirement under any changes in the pending law.

"It certainly will not apply to the casual seller on eBay, but might apply to anyone who sells a lot," he said. "If someone buys and sells on eBay on a regular basis as a type of business, then there is a need for regulation."

Have the Republicrats and Democrans fucked our country and state over so bad that they must now try to generate additional revenue streams from the middle class by enforcing inappropriate laws???

I so badly want to see how you will end up defining "casual seller".

It was bad enough that Dick Cheney padded information about the poor US economy by basically saying that US govt numbers don't take into account Ebay transactions.

Now someone wants to continue to restrict simple basic "free trade" on a goddamn garage sale on the net.

Yes. Some people do run entire business off of Ebay but those are few and far between in the collective whole of Ebay. In fact, Powersellers have ruined Ebay to some extent and may eventually lead to people like myself going to other auction sites.

I'm on Ebay every night and in my specific areas of buy and trade there are a few specific online stores.

But I'll be damned if I ever fucking pay the goddamn state of Ohio a fee so that I can sell the same kinds of things that I'd buy or trade at garage or yard sale.

These so called Ohio politicans better change this crap before trying to enforce this. How much more can you people leech of us Ohioans?!?!

Hani Durzy, eBay spokesman, said the company has reviewed Ohio's law and is not concerned.

"We do not believe the law applies to people who sell items on eBay or to eBay itself," he told the paper.

This is a warning to all of you non-Cowlanders out there.

If something like this manages to get enforced in the Cowlands then your state is next. Count on it!

Online poker/casinos sites must have become pretty mundane because the dreg that spams this site is now all about loans and mortgages.

Not that any of it ever gets posted or anything.

But man oh man, who the hell would ever explore any kind of loan or mortgage options from a link?

I just don't get that.

I'm wondering if I could sue ESPN since some of the previous spam said it was coming from them?

Fun on the Ten Commandments front.

�If an atheist walks by, they can avert their eyes,� said Justice Kennedy, who also complained of society�s �obsessive concern with any mention of religion.� He added, �I don�t see a balanced dialogue.�

An atheist can avert their eyes to religious content but the same kind of argument doesn't typically work with 'Merican's personal responsibility to viewing/listening to differing viewpoints, pornography, and so forth.

Hell, members of the wasteland that is 'Merican federal politics in 2005 wants to regulate subscriber cable and satellite radio too.

U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens said on Tuesday he would push for applying broadcast decency standards to cable television and subscription satellite TV and radio.

"Cable is a much greater violator in the indecency area," the Alaska Republican told the National Association of Broadcasters, which represents most local television and radio affiliates. "I think we have the same power to deal with cable as over-the-air" broadcasters.

"There has to be some standard of decency," he said. But he also cautioned that "No one wants censorship."

We can't even feed and house children properly in this country but man oh man can we go after images, thought, and the printed word.

Oh wait. There's no real revenue stream to be made off of those without money.

Holy Shit!

Hunter S. Thompson, the acerbic counterculture writer who popularised a new form of fictional journalism in books like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, fatally shot himself last night at his Aspen-area home

He was one of my favorite writers.

Yay for Cowtown!

A six-year-old boy takes a gun to school.

Columbus Police believe the kindergartener spent the entire day Wednesday at Harmon Elementary with the gun in his possession....

Police say the boy took the gun from beneath his mother's pillow and brought it to school because he wanted to show it off.

When I was a kid I lived in a house with guns (my father being a police officer and all) and I never once thought about picking up his weapons.

Never.

But that was back in the 1970s when innocence still ruled.

But it says...

Aviation officials were "lulled into a false sense of security" and "intelligence that indicated a real and growing threat leading up to 9/11 did not stimulate significant increases in security procedures."

Of the FAA's 105 daily intelligence summaries between April 1 and Sept. 10, 2001, 52 mentioned bin Laden, al Qaeda or both, "mostly in regard to overseas threats."

Oh wait. God changed reality so the US could go to war with Iraq over this.

Wait. No. That never happened either.

We wanted to spread liberty, freedom, and democracy.

That's it!

I remember now.

Only about half of America's high school students think newspapers should be allowed to publish freely, without government approval of their stories. And a third say the free speech guarantees of the First Amendment go "too far." (NY Times)

In the name of his "ownership society" concept, Bush applies ultraconservative dogmas to the letter: always less government, always more privatization, always less taxes (for the wealthiest), so as to make the individual more independent, more free to determine his destiny. In fact, using the deficit as blackmail, he is proceeding to a redistribution of national wealth for the benefit of the brokers, banks, and insurance companies who will profit even from the borrowing aspect of the proposals launched by the White House. (Truthout)

Mr. Gonzales testified that he agreed with the substance of the original torture memo, and he still takes the view that the president can declare himself to be above the law. In written responses to senators' questions, Mr. Gonzales argued that intelligence agents could "abuse" prisoners as long as they did it to foreigners outside the United States. (NY Times)

Always remember... Arbeit Macht Frei... Work Makes You Free.

Ask those 6 million+ dead.

The sun is now setting on the United States of America and the wealthy in power fear how this transition will affect them.

Can't you smell the hint of the burning embers of chaos in the air?

This is going to be a grand century.

Oh... yeah!

Maybe it is because I'm retarded or something but what the hell do you think would have happened?

I mean... this is a company that makes doughnuts.

Doughnuts.

That's it.

I mean... do you know how many places exist in every single frigg'n town in this country that make doughnuts???

No doubt quite a few.

Of course they were eventually going to have bad times.

We are talking goddamn doughnuts here.

Hire as many people as you want to restructure your company but the sad fact is your entire existence is based on the fact that you make doughnuts for a living!!!

People like greasy high caloric useless calories like doughnuts but it isn't like people are all of a sudden going to increase their doughnut intake!!!

Ugh...

Slattery called himself an iTunes customer who "was also forced to purchase an Apple iPod" if he wanted to take his music with him to listen to.

Bullshit.

He had the choice to use a service other than iTunes. He had the choice to stop using iTunes when he realized he would need an iPod. He had the choice to choose the course of his actions to solve his dilemma.

And he also had the social dreg choice to sue over his inability to take personal responsibility for his actions and he took that path.

What the fuck ever!!!

Now I'm wondering if he is primarily a Windows user or a Mac user. That'd be interesting to know.

Perhaps his mom or dad should have made the choice of online music store for him.

And in other news...

Watching contestants eat dead rats on NBC's gross-out stunt show "Fear Factor" so disgusted a Cleveland man that he has sued NBC for $2.5 million, saying he could not stomach what he saw.

He said the show caused his blood pressure to rise so high that he became dizzy and light-headed, and when he ran away to his room, he bumped his head into the doorway.

In a brief telephone interview with Reuters, Aitken said, "I am not at liberty to discuss the complaint unless it is a paid-interview situation."

Dreg. Genetic fucking dreg.

Now Easton sucks.

Easton + Christmastime sucks in a super mega way.

Easton + Christmastime + Snow sucks in a super mega balls way.

Easton + Christmastime + Snow + Nala sucks in a super mega balls nasty way!!!

Why oh why would someone ruin a perfectly good chocolate brownie by dripping melted candy canes on them?

Yet another abomination against nature if you ask me.

Not that you did.

But it is true nonetheless.

What the fuck!?!?!?!?!

This article goes on to state...

"The policy of my government is a strong-dollar policy," Bush said during an Oval Office meeting with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Despite White House expressions of support, the administration has not taken action to prop up the dollar. During Bush's four years in office, not once has the administration intervened in currency markets to support the dollar or done anything else to stop the dollar's slide.

"The best thing we can do from the executive branch of government in America," Bush said, "is work with Congress to deal with our deficits. One deficit is a short-term budget deficit. Another deficit is the unfunded liabilities that come with Social Security and some of the health programs for the elderly."

Social Security.

This has always been a scripted fully organized method of destroying New Deal programs!!!

If he cared about the US dollar he would have been doing something about it over the past few years.

Arghhhhhhh!!!

And if fucking politicians would not have been raping the Social Security fund for all their fucking useless pork barrel projects then the money that all of these people, including myself, have been putting into the fund would still be there so they could take it back out!!!

Now these fuckers want to put this money into volatile stock markets so people can lose even less because they want to have fucking capital for their goddamn investments so that they can in turn cut taxes on the investment "income" they make off of this.

Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

Collapse will come.

Oh yes! Collapse will come!

Short-term budget deficit my ass.

Goddamn political double-speak.

1+1 does not equal 3!!!

From The Houston Chronicle and no doubt elsewhere...

Dear Abby:

My 16-year-old daughter went to a party at a frat house where she was given a great deal to drink. Feeling "woozy," she went outside. One of the "boys" suggested she go back to his room to lie down. She had known this fellow before that night and trusted him. She was drunk, and he had sex with her. It was her first time. She claims she tried to make him stop, but he wouldn't.

Shouldn't the young man be punished in some way? I feel something should be done, and I also worry about him doing this to some other girl. Would this constitute date rape?

CONFUSED in Virginia

Ok. So I have this problem driving in the dark.

The first time I remember having the problem was back in 1987 or so when I was in high school going to a basketball game and then I really didn't have an "episode" until a few years back.

The headlights and the streetlights start hypnotizing me and then the dizzyness sets in. It isn't a problem really if I'm only going 30 miles an hour or so but above that it gets worse.

Now the last time I had to have my car in for service was when Daylight Savings Time was still going strong and it was already light out so driving to Reynoldsburg was a cinch.

This morning... well... let's just say I freaked out so bad I had to just pull off and come to work and cancel the appointment.

I can't believe I wasn't thinking clearly in scheduling an appointment at 7am and knowing full well my inability to drive in the dark.

Grrrr!!!

Stupid stupid Nala.

Well my friends another Life Day has come and gone.

8 new people lost their Life Day virginity today and no doubt none of them are glad they did.

Bea Arthur sang. Art Carney joked. And Itchy, Chewbacca's father watched porn.

Yes. All is happy in the world.

And so The Star Wars Holiday Special gets locked away for another 365 days and won't see the light of day until this time next year.

Some say that is a good thing.

But the people who shared Life Day today here at the House Of Love III know better.

Sure I enjoy the time off and all but overall "holiday time off" kinda sucks.

Especially when radio personalities take a week or two off during the holidays and run godsawful "Best of..." shows or even worse, something "unique".

One of Cowtown's most beloved locals and frequent commenter on this site Dan H. has turned me onto Revelation13.net, a fun an exciting site about the undead, prophecies, astrology, and generally other magic that I detest.

I think my favorite part just may be the section entitled "The Astrology of Diseases related to Galaxies" and The Laci Peterson Murder Case - New Age and Prophecy Discussion, and the Bible Code.

Homo sapiens sapiens and the belief in magics never fail to amaze me.

A study in the New England Journal of Medicine found a four fold increase in the risk of an accident for people who drive while phoning -- the same risk as driving with a 0.08 blood alcohol level...

Well duh!!!

I cannot stand when I am coming to work or driving around the Land of Cows and see people on their cell phones trying to negotiate traffic.

I've even seen women driving, talking on their cell phones, and putting on cosmetics while driving to work in the mornings.

HATE IT!!!

I am pretty positive that the chick that totalled Matt's Deluxe Luxury Chevy Cavalier was on a cell phone when she hit us.

I can't prove it of course because I barely remember much other after the impact but I did see her out of the corner of my eye and not only was she not paying attention to the red light I could swear she had her hand up to her head.

While I'm no fan of police invasion of privacy without just cause I definitely think that if an officer sees a person driving and talking with the phone to their head they should be able to pull them over and give them a $500 non-negotiable ticket.

Hands-free sets I'm a bit more lenient on so I suppose I would need to see data on their use and car accidents first.

Now personally, when I see people walking in stores talking out loud into their hands-free cell phones I want to walk up to them and tell them they are an abomination against man and nature. Of course I keep these opinions to myself and just glare at them hoping they walk into endcaps and such.

I am just not a fan of these devices.

What was once a convenience is now a "can't life without" piece of technology and the abuse and misuse is so high that it makes me want to puke.

Children without incomes to pay for them do not need cell phones. Give 'em a goddamn $20 roll of quarters and make 'em use the payphones.

And some say the gains from cell phones and driving are worth some added risk. In 2002, the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis estimated that benefits of a ban (reduced deaths, medical costs, property damage, etc.) would be roughly $43 billion -- or, exactly the same amount as their estimate of the economic value of the calls. Others, such as the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, say a ban would be bad for business. They concluded in 1999 that a ban would result in economic losses of $20 billion.

This of course is why the christian coalitions and other fucked up conservative groups will never ever be able to eliminate pr0nography of course.

The economics are in the pr0n industries favor even though all those people who look at pr0n will burn in hell forever once they are dead and no longer valuable consumers and spenders.

I was cleaning out ye olde Outlook inbox and came across something Danny (he just isn't a "Dan" to me)sent me from a week ago that I must have overlooked.

As reported by Reuters...

A man leaped into a lion's den at the Taipei Zoo to try to convert the king of beasts to Christianity, but was bitten in the leg for his efforts.

"Jesus will save you!" shouted the 46-year-old man at two African lions lounging under a tree a few metres away.

"Come bite me!" he said with both hands raised, television footage showed.

Geez. The lion bit him.

Exactly "what" would Jesus save a lion from? An overpowering pack of hyenas? A bull elephant? Perhaps christians themselves?

Quite frankly I think members of Panthera leo are probably deists if anything. I don't see much belief in the undead in lions or other felines.

As always, thanks go out to my family for telling me one month late that Emma H. was born.

I always love finding out about births and deaths in my family months or even years later.

Oh how I love members of Homo sapiens sapiens. I mean some of them never cease to amaze me.

An 18-year-old Marine recruit remained in jail on Wednesday, charged with threatening to stab his girlfriend over her choice for president, news partner NewsChannel 5 reported in its noon broadcast.

The enlistee, Steven Scott Soper, of Lake Worth, became enraged Tuesday night when his 18-year-old girlfriend said she was leaving him -- and voting for John Kerry for president.

Soper, who will enter the Marines as soon as he passes the GED test, solidly supports Bush. He allegedly told girlfriend Stacey Silheira, "You'll never live to see the election."

If any of you actually believe that tonight's "presidential" election debate has any value whatsoever than mental retardation is in fact the norm for our culture now.

These completely controlled shams allow The President Select to not have to actually formulate full concepts or even sentences and are structured so that not a single fucking thing of value can be talked about at all. His challenger won't even need to formulate responses because there will not be any.

There is no debate at all. There is absolutely nothing of importance here.

Our culture is fucked. Completely. Utterly. Fucked.

This is all an illusion now.

I don't think it is possible to be more fucked.

If I saw a woman getting double-penetrated she would not be as fucked as our culture as a whole is.

Ladies and gentlemen. Children of all ages.

I give you... the seeds of what will cause the streets to run with blood.

Increase the payroll tax 32 percent,immediately and forever

Raise income taxes by two-thirds, immediately and forever

Cut Social Security and Medicare benefits by 45 percent, immediately and forever;

Eliminate forever all discretionary spending, which includes the military, homeland security, highways, courts, national parks and most of what the federal government does outside of the transfer of payments to the elderly.

The oh so wonderful Republicans and Democrats have wasted several generations.

These men and women are have no true long-term vision for themselves, their families, or their collective American culture.

And it'll be oh so much fun when the cultural and social collapse comes.

And it'll be so much better that there will be more automatic weapons on the streets too. Think how much easier the chaos will come.

I have the distinct feeling that the "documents" that CBS News supposedly brought to light have the smell of Karl Rove all over them.

No. I don't put it past the current administration to plant forged documents that appear to condemn El Presidente which in fact will incite loser Dems to say "we told you so" to the degree that when the nature of the documents being forged is shown, Rove and company can then parlay this into a "the Dems will believe anything" and so you should not vote for them.

Can we just get to the streets running with rivers of blood and get all of this Democrat/Republican bullshit over. When will the politicians start hanging in public squares?

I'm glad there are organizations reporting the most important news of the day.

And man... is it me or is 7 year old Lourdes dressed like a total late teens dirty whore? I mean really. It used to be that I couldn't tell the difference between a kid who was 7 and one who was 10 and now I can't tell the difference between a 7 year old and a 17 year old???? I mean christ... look at her! (Hell, she looks like she's got the titties too!!!!)

In other news Ivan is now a Cat 5 hurricane and that no doubt means new blog updates from L. Can it get any shittier? Well for this guy most definitely.

And Christian ingenuity in committing fraud just keeps getting better.

I really should create a site devoted to the tracking of fraudulent and outright evil activity by supposedly religious individuals. It'd be great to track each religious belief system and how individuals in clerical positions and those of "obvious spouting faith" actual rank.

Taunton High pair miss bowl, punt whole season for potty antics (Boston Herald)

A pair of Taunton High School jocks got dumped from the varsity football team yesterday when administrators busted them for urinating on the freshman squad's equipment.

The duo soiled shoulder pads, jerseys and cleats, and even defecated on the locker room floor, during the Friday afternoon stunt, Superintendent Donald Cleary said.

Both students, identified as sophomore and junior members of the varsity team, received a four-day suspension from school. They'll also split the cost of cleaning the locker room and replacing the tainted equipment, Cleary said.

"I had two sad, sad faces come out of my car," Fagan said. "It's a real downer for them."

Your kids pissed and shit all over other kids' equipment.

What the fuck! Sad faces should be just the start of what they will have!

It had to come to this eventually.

Somebody would study lesbian behaviour in wild cows.

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Pennsylvania state police aren't laughing about the person who passed some funny money � a $200 bill with President George W. Bush's picture on it � at a women's clothing store. (WPVI.com)

I don't know what is more disturbing.

The fact that is is a denomination that never existed.

The fact that W is on it.

Or the fact that they used it at Fashion Bug.

Yay!!!

Tomorrow is Pirate Day!!!

I love Pirate Day!!!

Yarrrghhhh!!!

Why not buy one of these for your boyfriend or girlfriend just for kicks.

Definitely not "safe for work" if ya know what I mean.

Ok. So I've got the Ziggler and the Chetler but overall I'm not a huge fan of cats.

I just don't get the whole "cats are great pets" thing.

And then I came across this site and I'm now officially creeped out by cats.

I am not sure why.

I just am.

[Update: Matt is right. My Cat Hates You is a must better site and provides less creepy vibes. I mean, how bad can a cat with an Autobot insignia hat be. See. Tranformers are EVERYWHERE!]

Everyday I find yet another example of why our human society, and more specific our American culture, has reached a time of incredible lows.

Case in point... today's mail.

Every item was some solicitation from the bottom dregs of society trying to make money off of our accident from the other day.

Tons of shit from lawyers. Shit for car repairs. Shit from insurance companies.

Our civilization has reached a population size in which an entire career can be built off of generating profits and a revenue stream from the suffering and misfortunes of others.

The phone rang constantly yesterday from ambulance chasers. And now the mail is just the same.

Dregs. Vermin. Abominations.

La Toya Jackson changes name to Toy

Oh god.

�It feels good to be back,� �Toy� Jackson told Billboard. �With this single, I wanted people to judge the song on its own merit.�

Jackson fully understands that her name comes with much baggage, good and bad. �People weren�t giving me the chance to do my thing, which is to sing,� she said. �So, I altered my name for this single to see what would happen.�

You never really had much creative talent to begin with.

Changing your name isn't going to help.

Hell, it is kinda of like OSU's management by moving people's offices instead of firing people.

Methinks DJs may play your track at least once wondering who Toy is but going around and then telling them that Toy is Latoya Jackson is self defeating, no?

When I got in the Deluxe Luxury Volkswagen New Beetle this morning and started to head to Speedway for my morning coffee, I didn't change the radio to my usual Stern show.

Instead it was some local blabbing mouths on 97.1 that were on and I honestly have no idea who the hell they were.

But what they were doing was of quality morning radio value.

They were having people call in with websites they've found that were off kilter.

Definitely a few gems I remember prior to my caffienation are:

Missouri Trailer Trash Dot Com

Awful Plastic Surgery Dot Com

And while it hasn't been updated in ages, Fat Chicks In Party Hats Dot Com is still one of the most insane sites ever.

I don't see how anyone could possibly find take this week's terrorist threat info as reliable and anything other than a politicizing move by El President Select.

I suppose I would be reacting to it a bit differently if The Homeland Security Head Tool hadn't felt the need to insert comments about El Presidente Select into the warning.

William Rivers Pitt pretty much summed it up for me...

Late Monday night, however, had articles popping up on the Washington Post and the New York Times. This was the Post's midnight take: "Most of the al-Qaeda surveillance of five financial institutions that led to a new terrorism alert Sunday was conducted before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and authorities are not sure whether the casing of the buildings has continued, numerous intelligence and law enforcement officials said yesterday...'There is nothing right now that we're hearing that is new,' said one senior law enforcement official who was briefed on the alert. 'Why did we go to this level? I still don't know that.'"

The data was three years old.

Tom Ridge, in his Sunday remarks, said, "President Bush has told you, and I have reiterated the promise, that when we have specific credible information, that we will share it. Now this afternoon, we do have new and unusually specific information about where al-Qaeda would like to attack."

The data was three years old.

"The quality of this intelligence," said Ridge on Sunday, "based on multiple reporting streams in multiple locations, is rarely seen and it is alarming in both the amount and specificity of the information."

The data was three years old.

"As of now," said Ridge on Sunday, "this is what we know: reports indicate that al-Qaeda is targeting several specific buildings, including the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in the District of Columbia; Prudential Financial in Northern New Jersey; and Citigroup buildings and the New York Stock Exchange in New York."

The data was three years old.

"I certainly realize that this is sobering news," said Ridge on Sunday, "not just about the intent of our enemies, but of their specific plans and a glimpse into their methods."

The data was three years old.

"But we must understand," said Ridge on Sunday, "that the kind of information available to us today is the result of the President's leadership in the war against terror."

The data was three years old.

If indeed there was any immediate truth to this information, you sure as hell wouldn't know it... As reported on the Bloomberg newswire, Laura Bush and the daughters Barbara and Jenna Bush held a photo-op at the Citigroup Center in New York City on Monday, the first day of Ridge's new Orange alert. This was one of the target buildings, according to Ridge. George W. Bush sent his entire family to the very place that was supposedly about to be blown to smithereens?

I am a major proponent of the elimination of the now useless and archaic two-party system that is the modern basis of corrupt US politics.

The two-party system is no better or even that different from the one-party systems of the Soviet Union or even China.

Every time I hear or read the Democrat or Republican rhetoric about democracy and voting rights I shudder because this rhetoric is built upon the lies and illusions and marketing that you have a choice to vote for that is not a puppet or tool of a corporate backer or industry.

Democracy at a national, state, and even city level is a total illusion in this country and we've now brought that to Iraq too of course.

I despise political lies and deceptions. But then again, that is all politics really is. Lies, deceptions, and the marketing of dollars to either generate more dollars or to redistribute dollars in one or the other groups favor.

I was a proponent of Ross Perot and even Ralph Nader's 2000 race because of the fact they represented at least something, however minor, to the bullshit 2 party system.

And now... Nader Says He'll Now Accept Signatures Collected by GOP.

There is absolutely not a single honest or honorable intent in this act on Nader's part, and especially on the dishonest actions of the GOP.

These signatures were not collected by the GOP to have a realistic 3rd candidate. They were not collected by the GOP for any valid or honest reason at all. They were collect to to fuck over their opposing candidate.

It is dishonest and immoral. Then again, this is a Christian nation infused with dishonest and immoral Christian actions.

When the sum and substance if this is now dishonesty, no good will even come out of it.

Have mercy on their poors dishonest souls. When the rapture comes, you are demon fodder.

Best Ebay Auction Ever!

Woah with the f*cked up news I just came upon.

Yahoo News is reporting... Michael Jackson to Be Father of Quadruplets!

Pop star Michael Jackson, facing a trial on child molestation charges, is about to become a father to four more children -- quadruplets -- by way of a surrogate mother, Us Weekly magazine reported on Tuesday.

When is the appropriate time to draw the line and just say "Um? Hello! You aren't remotely a fit parent!" which is what I'd say the majority of the world is probably thinking.

Three children is already enough. Now seven? Seven children to be raised by this individual???

I'm almost hoping, strike that, I am hoping that he's found guilty of the child molestation charges and spends time in prison.

At least these children may have a chance to grow up normal, away from their freakish mentally deranged XY chromosome donator.

The more I listen to extreme right and extreme left vitriole the more I am thinking that I wouldn't mind it all crushed under the hard leather boots of some form of tyranny.

There's a certain amount of beauty in the fact that this fucked up polarized country is becoming the breeding ground for a new identity of political thought unencumbered by tired old Democrat and Republican bullshit.

Yes. It is all the same old tired old bullshit with the stench occasionally sprayed down with Lysol and repackaged for a new generation.

Look to the past 300 years of history for how this will play out in the next two decades.

The lessons are all there.

Critical mass isn't as far away as you may think.

Peace through tyranny. I'm starting to appreciate and better understand the concept. Thank you George Bush, John Kerry, and the rest of you corporate tools for continually showing me the light.

You know something.

Why won't they just fess up and call it the "We Hate Your Fucking Guts You Sick Faggots And Dykes Bill".

At least have the balls to call it what it really is.

Career politicians.

You are all worthless.

And you know something? I'd really love concrete data on the number of white male politicians who get off on "girl-on-girl" sex as long as it is outside of marriage. No doubt the number is as high as the number of god-fearing christian conservative men who frequent tittie bars while away on business and have had adulterous affairs.

Google isn't turning up much.

If you recall, on June 16 I started a contest to see how quick my now 100MB Yahoo account would reach 100% spam.

Of course, getting 100MB of spam was taking a lot longer than expected so I cancelled the contest.

However, I figure that today was special and I'd celebrate the official arrival of 6000 spam messages to my Yahoo account.

Now the true figure would actually be a lot higher since the Yahoo spam filter doesn't catch them all and put them in the bulk folder. I'm figuring the true number is around 6100 or so and that's pretty good for only 28 days or so. That's about 217.857142857 spam messages per day.

Alas, even with that many spams the inbox is still only registering 1% of 100MB.

I wonder how long I'll be able to keep going before the default kicks in to delete the bulk folder.

Fox News swung back Monday at the critical documentary "Outfoxed," as well as a New York Times Magazine article about the project. The film uses interviews with former employees and internal memos to paint the cable channel as favoring Republicans.

Um... hello?!?!?!!

It is the dream of every political organization and party that has ever existed to have some form of propaganda arm that distributes the party view.

To an extent, I'd say that every political party in the past 60 years, while never openly admitting it, has wished it could have had the fun and excitement of the propaganda machine created by Joseph Goebbels during the rolling 30s.

Goebells created the ultimate marketing campaign for a political group that ruled the government, religious groups, and military of Nazi Germany.

Every group wants the political distribution vehicle.

The Party Formerly Of Lincoln (PFOL) has Fox News, Fox Radio, and a slew of other outlets.

The castrated entity known as the Democrats have NPR, Air America Radio, and also a slew of other outlets.

The marketing illusion put forth by the right of the "liberal" media is just cannon fodder for distraction from actual fact, which the Right and Left love to do, each dragging the party line that they have the "truth" when in fact both of them ignore fact.

The truth about something and the facts about something are rarely the same.

Jesus... please come back from your extended 1971 year vacation and flog everybody who can't look at the reality around them and not state the damn obvious facts that history is oh so full of.

Thank you.

And while you are at it... please don't forget what was written down in Leviticus...

14: But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;
15: And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
16: I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
17: And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
18: And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
19: And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
20: And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
21: And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
22: I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your highways shall be desolate.
23: And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;
24: Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
25: And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
26: And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
27: And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;
28: Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
29: And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
30: And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
31: And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
32: And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
33: And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
34: Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
35: As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
36: And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
37: And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
38: And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
39: And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
40: If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
41: And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
42: Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.
43: The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
44: And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.

"I would argue that the future of our country hangs in the balance because the future of marriage hangs in the balance," said Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa. ".....Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?"

What the goddamn fuck?!?!!?

These are the kind of people in supposed leadership roles in this country???

What the goddamn fuck?!?!!?

Understand this one thing... I am the ultimate upholder of marriage. I believe that it is a contract between two people and the people they have witness their union.

I am the ultimate enemy of flippant marriages and those who would casually destroy the vows taken.

The ultimate way to defend the sanctity of marriage and defend it is to make illegal the ability to divorce from a marriage.

Defending marriage by making it illegal for those who already don't have any legal right in marriage is fucking insane.

Jesus... please come back from your vacation and just kill everybody and start over.

Thank you.

And while you are at it, make sure you make people realize that there is this thing called the Constitution in this country. And this document which allows these fuckers to even have their "jobs" clearly establishes a separation between federal rights and a state's rights.

And while you are at it, and if you don't just kill everyone, please just eliminate the neocon christian psychos who have destroyed the Republican Party, and the left winger wankers in the Democrat Party, and bring about a balance that a country of millions of diverse people needs.

And while you are at it, please talk to Hasbro about their inability to spread plastic goodness to the midwestern greater Cowlands.

Also, good Old Testament fire and brimstone moments for illegal and/or immoral corporate activity would be a welcome change.

I came across the SmartKlamp� while reading Warren Ellis' blog.

All I have to say...

No son of mine... ever... will be mutilated by some kind of Energon device that an Omnicon would create!

Tony Blair conceded today that Iraqi weapons of mass destruction "may never be found" but claimed that they could have been "hidden, removed or destroyed". (The Guardian)

Yes. And I could be teaching advanced anthropology classes or working on advancing various theories on culture if I had attained my PhD.

But perhaps I actually didn't, or perhaps I did and forgot, or perhaps I got my PhD and ditched academia.

The fact is this: the enemy is Osama Bin Laden, a Saudi, and the highjackers were Saudis.

No amount of politiking or propaganda can change these facts.

No matter how many times you ask me, I will not tell you that "it is safe".

Ok. My whole Guess How Long It Takes For My Yahoo Email Account To Get 100MB Of Spam contest is just not feasible.

Fifteen days into the contest and only 3130 listed taking up 2% of the account.

The real total is probably closer to 3200 or so since I've had to mark as spam many pieces of shit that have ended up in the Inbox. Those don't show up as unread spam in the bulk count.

At this rate, it'll take months.

Hell, when the accounts used to be 4MB, I'd fill up with spam in a 4 to 5 day period.

So basically, going to 100MB has given me one jive ass honey pot for spam collection.

Bad crazyness.