Pirates and Profits Dept

So big music complains that they can't sell any "product" these days because of the free downloading. They want stronger controls, huge fines, jail time.

And who is it that actually BUYS music to download? This is from PC Magazine:

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Ah, America!

Sometimes you just have to stand in awe and think about what it REALLY means to be an American.

Land of the Free? Yeah, Right

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I don't have much to add to this, except to say Obama continues to precide over turning the US into the Soviet Union of the 1950s.

Jail for translation? JEEZUS!!! How much longer before it's jail for possession of The Koran?

Why do they hate America?


They're jealous of our freedom. Yeah, right.



Support our heroes in Uniform

On of my few heroes is army officer BRIAN MANNING, a young officer with the balls to reveal the horrors that the US government has committed during the Obama years. He's been locked away and psychologically tortured since. Finally, some great men, including Bishop Desmond Tutu (I know he's a Catholic, but I say, "hate the religion, not the religious,")

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Running Drugs in School

Ok, there's some controversy over drugs in schools. The psycho active ones are now getting students thrown in jail!!! In fact, jail has become the new "principle's office." 

Then there are the drugs forced on kids... or at least used to be. Ritalin for the school clown (lucky I went to school before that!), vaccines to "protect" from disease. (Ask my sister's friend whose child was paralyzed by a school vaccine.)

Now comes a report of yet another drug given out in schools. This time, maybe it's not so bad.



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Going to the Dogs

See, they only wanted legal... and they got repression. What they SHOULD have done is ask for the right to MARRY! That would've brought support from EVERYBODY! 

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Book Banning Season? Ho ho ho!!

A children's book about marijuana that's reasonable, non-hysterical, and doesn't offer GOD as a solution? I can't imagine THAT one getting very far in Christian America!

Did Religion Do This?

Now, I'm not the biggest fan of religion, organized or otherwise, but if you've got something that can get a 91-year old guy in bed with "a young woman," I need to know where to sign up. 

I'd have high self-esteem too!

Take a look at this from New York Metro:

 

 

Of course! If I knew that there were hundreds of people looking at me and becoming so stimulated that they rush for relief... I'd have high self-esteem too! It's logical, but not Judeo-Christian-Muslim, so few people will be paying attention to it.

 

 

FreePatriot and me agree? Weird!

I don't know what the FREE PATRIOT is or THE SOVEREIGN. This is copied from the latest edition of POPULAR REALITY zine. It's so rare that I agree with anyone else in the world, that when some one ELSE is right, I've got to post it. Among my friends, family, (and even some enemies), I seem to be the only one against "gay marriage." I'm against ALL marriage... at least government sanctioned marriage. But why say it when Darryl W. Perry has said it so well himself.? (If you can't read the article, click on it for a full view.)

Our Boys In Uniform

This from a recent issue of Metro News. Doesn't it make you proud? And the best thing is that the charges against the guys are not that they DID anything wrong, but only that they GOT CAUGHT ON CAMERA. Reminds me of the Vietnam-era cutting off the ears of the dead to wear as jewelry.

Something to think about NEXT veterans day. (If the image seems cut off, click on it to view the whole thing. )

Pssst, here's fifty bucks, gimmie your kid for awhile....

It should be incredible that this is legal, but this being America, as long as it's not sex it's legal.

This is an actual letter from a drug company offering to pay $50 a visit to test drugs on kids as young as SEVEN YEARS OLD!!! You can bet your prozac that the responders to this one aren't gonna be Romney-rich! (Click on the image if you can't see the whole thing.)

Just when I think corporate American can't get any more disgusting... I'm wrong!

Pssst, hey bud, wanna buy a country?

Ok, there's got to be more than 26 of them! They are the 1% after all. (Don't you feel sorry for them if they have to pay more taxes... I mean, how can you live on only 3.3 billion dollars? You'd be out on the street!) (Click here for a close-up of the article.)

It's thinking like this....

The Utner Reader reports on an article in Science News. That article says that where parents of kids felt they lived in "a dangerous neighborhood," the kids tended to be overweight. Parents who felt they lived in "a safe neighborhood" had kids closer to normal. The reason, according to the study, is that parents in "dangerous neighborhoods" kept their kids at home, where they ate a lot. The kids in safe neighboods went out to play, and therefore ate less.

Er... could it be that the kids in dangerous neighborhoods had poor diets, living off fast food and other lousy cheap food? Maybe safe parents can afford the salads and health foods that keep people thin? Naw, couldn't be that. CRIME is the criminal, not economics, right America?

You EXPECT Americans to be dumb... but SCIENCE NEWS? Come on!



A link to the actual study is: http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Farchpedi.jamanetwork.com%2FIssue.aspx%3Fjournalid%3D75%26issueID%3D5067%26direction%3DP&h=jAQHrDASc

Hmmm, how could this work?

PC World wrote the following about a scam where malware gets into your computer, then demands a "fine" for viewing child pornography on the internet. Seems to me it would only work if a large number of people actually VIEW child porn on the internet. Makes you wonder, doesn't it? ... Nah! Not at all.

Hmmm, Will There Be a Telethon?

I just saw this in the paper. A new disease. I'm waiting for the colored ribbon (what color? Pink is already taken) and the charity with a big name actor/actress coming out as a victim of the disease... sorry a SURVIVOR of the disease. (If you have trouble reading the whole thing, click on it and open the pic in a new tab.)

New Information Says....

Of course the sponsors of this research are the Coffee Producers Consortium, and the Canola Growers Association. Both of whom have contributed generously to Robert J. Davis's research budget for this book. I don't know any of this for sure... just an.. er... educated guess.

The Future US President

I wanna know who Putin thinks he is? Romney?

Cheap Targets Dept.

Every wonder why the U.S. propaganda machine targets Iran and Syria, but not, say the home country of the guys who flew into the World Trade Towers?

Here's a hint:

Market to China... today!

Ah free trade, ain't it wonderful. Who needs a middle class in the US... to do what, buy i-Phones? (made in China anyway), when there is a GIANT middle class developing in China?

Louisiana vs the Loch Ness Monster

Dinosaurs are still living. Science and homosexuality. Apartied maintains culture. All true, of course.

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--MB

How the Rich People spend their money, pg. 199

Want to know how rich people spend their money? Why, they're just like the rest of us, right?

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Bomb Threat Voice Training

Just in case you're wondering what the folks answering your next bomb threat are looking for, here's an official checklist. Rehearse! Rehearse! Rehearse! You wouldn't want to lose points for STUTTER, NASAL or especially LISP, would you?

Ahh, Apple Folks can Afford It

This is from PC World magazine. All those Apple owners... Orbitz knows your true colors

In a Highway Gas Station?

Hmmm, there's something a bit... er... disturbing about the title of this book and it's display in a New Jersey gas station. Don't you think?

Israel Palestine? Republican Democrat? Natives Immigrants?

This from the SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE. It explains a lot.

Aw, isn't that nice?

So STARBUCKS is spreading the gospel of EMPLOYMENT... And fighting UNEMPLOYMENT... and these are the guys-- like a coffee Walmart-- who move into places, get the lines (with AWFUL coffee) force other coffee shops out of business. Can you say GAG ME WITH A LATTE?

Myths American Suckers Believe

This is from Mother Jones Magazine, I hope they won't object to me letting it have a slightly wider audience. It's one of the best I've read. (Note, to read, click on each page. Let me know if there's a problem.)

And here's the second page:

and the last one:

Pretty right, huh?

Which came first? dept:

This was in the newsletter of the National Coalition Against Censorship. Animal-lovers?

How conservatives Think

This article from CNN talks about Higher education spending vs prison spending, but the idea is the same. Like higher education costs, conservatives want to cut welfare... either directly or by doing something stupid like making welfare recipients pay for their own drug testing. So what happens? The citizens quit welfare, turn to crime, go to jail where the cost is $50,000 a year-- more than twice what welfare would have given them. Makes sense, doesn't it?

And PC is supposed to be LEFTIST?

So they say that PCdom is for Lefties who are easily offended by words like Negro and Oriental. Oh yeah? This is from THE PROGRESSIVE magazine.

Google BAITS AND SWITCHES

For the past couple years I've been using PICASA, Google's photo sharing site. I pay $5 a year for extra storage. Now Google says the price increases... by 600%!!  Before $5 a year... now $2.49--- a month!!!!
They get you hooked with their program, and then jack up the prices... OK, I've got some deleting to do to keep under the 1G FREE minimum. Until I find a new host, that is!

Bully for NCAC (on Bullying)

I'm glad to know I can count on my pals from the National Coalition Against Censorship to have the right point of view on the "Cyber Bully" stuff. Too many knee-jerk liberals support "harsh laws" without realizing that the laws are cut from the same fabric as anti-porn and anti-immigrant censorship laws.

Anyway, they say it almost as good as I could!

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Facebook Falls on Its Face

Could it be that people remember MySpace? Or could it be the lack of privacy? How 'bout increased censorship? Do I say... Google Plus here we come?

NY Parking, You Gotta Be An Asshole to Afford It!

Whew!! Just in case Romney or Bloomberg need a place to park... It's good to know our officials can take care of themselves!

Obama Gags

Here's reason 44656 NOT to vote for Obama in November. This from the great Jim Hightower:

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This is from our school brochure

If you look carefully at the neck, you can see where my head was photoshoppedly attached to someone else's body. Good job. They knew I'd never actually wear a tie and jacket. Slightly dishonest for the students, though, if they're expecting the guy in the picture... instead of me!

Dept of Unintentional Rightitude.

Katha Pollitt, in a recent column in THE NATION, unintentionally gives all the reasons progressives SHOULD abandon Obama. As for me, there's no way in HELL I'm gonna vote for him. Ron Paul, well, he's a nut, but a half-right nut. I wouldn't want him to be president. Are you kidding? I have a rent-stabilized apartment! (If it's too small to read, click on it and you can see it full size.)

What else is down this year?

Website magazine reports that the world spam rate hit a 3-year low. I guess other folks are like me and only read their facebook mail. Everything else goes in the trash! Spam killed email and now it's killing itself!

Private Enterprise? Yeah, Right

So often you hear the corporate lackeys... er... to be politically correct: the conservatives... squawk about how much better private enterprise is than the government. How the government fucks shit up, but private enterprise gets us through just fine. Yeah right,

Keep your knees tight, or bring along some Saran Wrap.

Another Milestone

This is from THE PROGRESSIVE magazine. It's in an article on how students are the new indentured servants. They start life with a huge debt, and so become slaves to banks right from the get go. And now... well, check it out! 

Not quite the 99%

So website magazine runs an ad for a web service that will tell you WHO visited your website. Of course we want every site we visit to know our names, addresses, sexual orientation and political leanings, don't we?

Thomas Jefferson... No wonder he's banned

Awhile back I read that the notorious Texas board of education was purging Jefferson from the curriculum because he was the author of the famous "Wall of Separation between church and state" dictum. I figured he was a vague Christian with principles. Now I find out he was a UNITARIAN. The same branch of Christianity as Barry Lynn, the head of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. Maybe there's something to those Unitarians.