Friday, July 04, 2008

Jesse Helms Dead at 86


Should have had a V8.

I know it's bad to trample on one's grave, especially since this racist, homophobic, hateful prick's body isn't even cold yet, but. . . . I guess I'm happy that there's one less racist, homophobic, hateful prick in the world.
Remember folks, this is a guy who was against equality of any sort (unless you define equal as a white Christian hetero capitalist male), and supported such wonderful role models in our time as Pinochet and D'Aubuisson (Salvadoran death squad leader). So I guess you would consider him a staunch anti-communist. In his world, it was perfectly alright to murder civilians en masse, but you had better not be holding Das Kapital while doing it.

What The F is Social Media?!

Well, if you weren't aware of what "social media" really is, here is a slideshow from Marta Kagan who is an Internet marketing specialist.


Monday, June 30, 2008

Tech support at it's finest

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Monday, June 23, 2008

George Carlin dead at 71 - revisited

To say I am devastated is an understatement.
http://www.mahalo.com/George_Carlin_Dead

I have spent a good portion of the day looking at various YouTube clips reminiscing and marveling on how good he was at pointing out both how similar we all are and how our government & big business fuck us on a daily basis.

Some of my favorite Carlin quotes:

"Do you know why they call it a blow JOB? It implies there's a work ethic attached. . . makes you feel like you did something good for the economy."

"I don't understand it. . .selling is legal. . . .fucking is legal. . . . .why isn't selling fucking legal. Why should it be illegal to sell something that is perfectly legal to give away?"

"Did you ever notice how your "shit" is "stuff" and their "stuff" is "shit"?"


Also, given that I just spent 5 hours on a flight that should have been 2 1/2, I figured that I would include one of my favorite Carlin sketches on flying:




Sunday, June 22, 2008

Bush's Resume

This individual seeks an executive position. He will be available January 2009, and is willing to relocate.
RESUME
GEORGE W. BUSH
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington , DC 20520

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
Law Enforcement

I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1976 for driving under the influence of alcohol. I pled guilty, paid a fine, and had my driver's license suspended for 30 days. My Texas driving record has been "lost" and is not available.

Military

I joined the Texas Air National Guard and went AWOL. I refused to take a drug test or answer any questions about my drug use. By joining the Texas Air National Guard, I was able to avoid combat duty in Vietnam.

College

I graduated from Yale University with a low C average. I was a cheerleader.

PAST WORK EXPERIENCE

I ran for U.S. Congress and lost. I began my career in the oil business in Midland, Texas, in 1975. I bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas. The company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock. I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money. With the help of my father and our friends in the oil industry (including Enron CEO Ken Lay), I was elected governor of Texas.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS GOVERNOR OF TEXAS
- I changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and oil companies, making Texas the most polluted state in the Union. During my tenure, Houston replaced Los Angeles as the most smog-ridden city in America.
- I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas treasury to the tune of billions in borrowed money.
- I set the record for the most executions by any governor in American history.
- With the help of my brother, the governor of Florida, and my father's appointments to the Supreme Court, I became President after losing by over 500,000 votes.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT
- I am the first President in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record.
- I invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing cost of over one billion dollars per week.
- I spent the U.S. surplus and effectively bankrupted the U.S. Treasury.
- I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in U.S. history.
- I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.
- I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.
- I set the all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the U.S. stock market. In my first year in office, over 2 million Americans lost their jobs and that trend continues every month.
- I'm proud that the members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in U.S. history. My "poorest millionaire," Condoleeza Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker named after her.
- I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by a U.S. President.
- I am the all-time U.S. and world record-holder for receiving the most corporate campaign donations.
- My largest lifetime campaign contributor, and one of my best friends, Kenneth Lay, presided over the largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S. History, Enron.
- My political party used Enron private jets and corporate attorneys to assure my success with the U.S. Supreme Court during my election decision.
- I have protected my friends at Enron and Halliburton against investigation or prosecution. More time and money was spent investigating the Monica Lewinsky affair than has been spent investigating one of the biggest corporate rip-offs in history. I presided over the biggest energy crisis in U.S. history and refused to
intervene when corruption involving the oil industry was revealed.
- I presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history.
- I changed the U.S. policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.
- I appointed more convicted criminals to administration than any President in U.S. history.
- I created the Ministry of Homeland Security, the largest bureaucracy in the history of the United States government.
- I've broken more international treaties than any President in U.S. history.
- I am the first President in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the Human Rights Commission.
- I withdrew the U.S. from the World Court of Law.
- I refused to allow inspector's access to U.S. "prisoners of war" detainees and thereby have refused to abide by the Geneva Convention.
- I am the first President in history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. election).
- I set the record for fewest numbers of press conferences of any President since the advent of television.
- I set the all-time record for most days on vacation in any one-year period. After taking off the entire month of August, I presided over the worst security failure in U.S. history.
- I garnered the most sympathy ever for the U.S. after the World Trade Center attacks and less than a year later made the U.S. the most hated country in the world, the largest failure of diplomacy in world history.
- I have set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously protest me in public venues (15 million people), shattering the record for protests against any person in the history of mankind.
- I am the first President in U.S. history to order an unprovoked, pre-emptive attack and the military occupation of a sovereign nation. I did so against the will of the United Nations, the majority of U.S. citizens, and the world community.
- I have cut health care benefits for war veterans and support a cut in duty benefits for active duty troops and their families in wartime.
- In my State of the Union Address, I lied about our reasons for attacking Iraq and then blamed the lies on our British friends.
- I am the first President in history to have a majority of Europeans (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and security.
- I am supporting development of a nuclear "Tactical Bunker Buster," a WMD.
- I have so far failed to fulfill my pledge to bring Osama Bin Laden to justice.
RECORDS AND REFERENCES
-All records of my tenure as governor of Texas are now in my father's library, sealed and unavailable for public view.
- All records of SEC investigations into my insider trading and my bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
- All records or minutes from meetings that I, or my Vice-President, attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review.

Monday, June 16, 2008

Someone please explain this to me

Harvey Korman. . . . Dead
Bo Diddley . . . . Dead
Tim Russert . . . . Dead
Stan Winston . . . . Dead
Paris Hilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . .Injured

Monday, June 09, 2008

Bill O vs. Bill M

Porter Barry from the O'Reilly Factor attempts to ambush Bill Moyers. However, after Moyers defends himself quite well, Mr. Barry gets a taste of his own medicine as the other reporters in the area stomp on him like Philly cops on a car full of black guys (for those of you not quite in tune with the reference, read this).

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

The Newest Club Drug: Preparation H



Ok, it's meant to be put ON your asshole, not on your whole body if you ARE one (sorry, too easy).


ABC News: Newest Club Drug: Preparation H

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Oops

Listen to the crowd . . .

Who let this dumbass become a teacher?!

Oh wait, it's Florida. I think you only need to demonstrate you have thumbs (officially classifying you as a minority).
http://mahalo.com/Alex_Barton

Monday, May 26, 2008

FOX Pundit Wishes for Obama Assassination, Laughs

Jeffrey Feldman: FOX Pundit Wishes for Obama Assassination, Laughs - Media on The Huffington Post


Yes, Liz Trotta from Fox News actually said she supported the assasination of Obama. The video is embedded in Feldman's excellent post so I will not go too far in depth, except that I will remind everyone how to convey your outrage and disgust over this monster's comments:


U.S. Secret Service
Office of Government and Public Affairs
245 Murray Drive,
Building 410,
Washington, DC 20223
202-406-5708
Email: http://www.secretservice.gov/contact_usss.shtml

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FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE FCC

http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm

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LIZ A TROTTA
(212) 734-7543
340 E. 66th St
New York, NY 10065

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Verizon (commercial aired after her comments)
Eric Rabe
Vice President, Media Relations
(908) 559-3500
eric.rabe@verizon.com

All subjects

Bill Kula, APR
Director, Media Relations
(972) 718-6924
william.kula@verizon.com

Telephone products & services, brand & reputation, customer service/experience

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

A wonderful "Special Comment" from Olbermann

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Office Worker Field Guide

Courtesy of a friend of mine:

Monday, May 05, 2008

Tom Cruise tells Oprah he wants more challenges - Yahoo! News

I've got a challenge for you, Tom . . .convince me you're not gay.

Tom Cruise tells Oprah he wants more challenges - Yahoo! News

Saturday, May 03, 2008

I heard he asked for it in small bills too. . . .


Man accused of trying to cash check for $360,000,000,000 | Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Latest News

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Thank You Gary Shandling

From the latest Real Time with Bill Maher:

"It does seem that Hillary Clinton is putting an awful lot of importance on the experience that she gained from being in the White House. To me, using that logic, Monica Lewinsky could be Secretary of Defense. On the 3AM phone call, if you had to make a bet, which of those women was most likely there when the phone rang?"

Thursday, April 24, 2008

I sense a new category in ebay is being created as I write this. . .

Lynchings in Congo as penis theft panic hits capital | U.S. | Reuters


 

Friday, April 18, 2008

Polygamy doesn't seem to be all it's cracked up to be

Ok, so I am watching TV as usual after a long day at work, and I see headline "Polygamist cult raided". Ok, let's take a look. . . . .multiple wives . . . compound in Texas . . . sounds very Waco-like.

As a hard-working American male, my next question is, of course . . . any of them hot?
Let's take a look . . . . hmmm. . .Fox News tends to have a higher ratio of titty to facts. . . let's see. . .and. . .




OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OHHH THE HUMANITY! OHHH THE HUMANITY!!!

Jeez a loo, what IS this, a fucking ricketts telethon? I'm trying. . . trying hard here. . .let's look at a few more pages. . . oh no, it's getting worse. . . . but I can't stop. . . it's like driving by a wreck off to the shoulder. . . I need to slow down a see the carnage. . . . ok, wait, maybe if she had better clothes, a trip to Sephora, better haircut. . .nope, nope, still fucking hideous.

Koresh did a far better job with choosing a genetic starter pack in the quest to build a better society.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Daily Kos: State of the Nation

Daily Kos: State of the Nation

I am convinced that Charles Gibson's next gig will be on Fox News a la Brit Hume.....

Monday, July 25, 2005

Spending $ on IRAQ - an alternative

Rather than playing Monday morning quarterback on how we could have spent the Iraq war funds more wisely, let's look forward, given that we are expecting to spend at least another $136 Billion over the coming year:

  • 82 Billion approved in May
  • An additional 45 Billion being debated by the house (and dumb'ya hasn't even asked for this $ yet!)
  • Medal of Freedom winner Paul Bremer and his $9 Billion in Iraqi oil revenues courtesy of the Coalition Provisional Authoritay (shit , getting too serious about a war we were led into with false data, senators who are frigin MDs yet think that sharing a toilet seat can spread AIDS, and a clinically retarded president depresses me too much, so I am compelled to insert various movie or television references from time to time to pep things up a bit. The ‘authoritay’ misspelling is courtesy of Eric Cartman).

Ok, so let's tackle something kind of important, like, say, our dwindling engineering talent. The latest Forbes points out that only 3 percent of our college grads are obtaining engineering degrees in contrast to 30 (yes, THIRTY) percent of grads in India and China. Let's look at the basic consequences, too:

  1. Lack of engineering talent = lack of manufacturing jobs = increase in trade deficit
  2. Security = A good chunk of our military is now XBox-based. Innovation in our military branches results from good engineering practices (such as decision support tools, guidance systems, and tactical measures). Also, do you trust foreign governments with access to system source code for our defense systems?

Allright, so I won't go as far as tree hugging, but let's also look at a domestic issue that seems to get overlooked too often: homelessness. Specifically, homeless children. You know, the ones who are on the street not because they made stupid choices, or are mentally handicapped, or got laid off & missed a few rent payments, but because of other circumstances COMPLETELY beyond their control? I figure, hell, let's help some of our own innocent US CITIZENS who are in a desperate condition before we go and pour money into a government that will be torn apart by civil war in a year or two anyway (yes, I am of the opinion that the sweet smell of freedom and capitalism we keep hoping for will eventually blow away like a fart in the wind to the foul stench of tyranny and oppression).

There are approximately 1.35 Million children on our streets that are homeless. Why not give each of them a $100,000 voucher (Yes, Peter just said "voucher". You may now pick up the food you just spit out) to attend a private technical boarding school for 4 years? That covers room, board, and tuition, and even leaves a billion dollars to handle administrative costs and oversight.

But wait a second, Mr. Ghosh, a technical school (especially if it's a secondary school) does not equal an engineering degree.

Correct, but let's try this, and look at the results in two or three years. Then, if there are positive results, then we spend another 130-150 Billion for their 4-year university degree. Also, we gain from

  • Fewer soldiers killed in action (who have families which will not get nearly enough compensation when their only "mission accomplished" is arriving home in a pine box, resulting in more people on the streets)
  • Spending 136 Billion every two-three years instead of every year
  • More people employed (two $50,000/year teachers vs. one $100,000/year Halliburton contractor)
  • More engineers churned out

At the very least, we get street cred by claiming that we removed all kids off the street (albeit only until a new batch gets thrown in) .

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