Pollywogs!

http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww…

I always sorta liked Al Gore. I liked him one hell of a lot better when he stopped pulling punches over the past couple years. He is finally calling it like it is, and I really respect him one hell of a lot more for it. I’d be all for a Gore/Dean, Gore/Fiengold, or hell, a Fiengold/Gore/Dean ticket…to quote:

Since his loss, Gore has undergone a resurrection of sorts, shrugging off the consultants and the caution that hampered him during the campaign and — aided by new distribution technologies — evolving into perhaps the most articulate, animated, and forceful critic of the Bush administration.

Thats laying it on a little thick (Dean and Feingold blast the administration pretty damn hard themselves), but I agree with the article in general…

http://www.politechbot.com/p-01394.html

That link is the response from the real ‘fathers’ of the internet regarding the media taking Al Gore out of context and blowing it up to make him look the fool. To quote:

Al Gore was the first political leader to recognize the importance of the Internet and to promote and support its development. No one person or even small group of persons exclusively “invented” the Internet…but as the two people who designed the basic architecture and the core protocols that make the Internet work, we would like to acknowledge VP Gore’s contributions as a Congressman, Senator and as Vice President. No other elected official, to our knowledge, has made a greater contribution over a longer period of time.

Something else worth checking out:

Current.tv

TV…without the corporate cocksuckers man!

I’m sane, I’m sane, I’m sane!

http://www.fuh2.com/

Interesting site they have there…the more I read on the internet, the more I realize I’m not alone in my madness, other people feel and think just like me >:)

But it is alright, its against the Scientologists, and we all know that they are bullshit anyway!

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/music/article.adp…

‘South Park’ Declares War on Scientology

Matt Stone and Trey Parker, creators of the animated satire, are digging in against the celebrity-endorsed religion after a controversial episode mocking outspoken Scientologist Tom Cruise was yanked abruptly from the schedule Wednesday - with Internet rumors it was covert warfare by Cruise that led to its departure.

“So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun!” the “South Park” creators said in a statement Friday in Daily Variety. “Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies… You have obsructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail!”

I need to start a religion, so I can do what I want without being taxed, so I can recruit cultists believers who are willing to donate to the church so I don’t have to work worry about how to build my new mansion church.

Everyone knows that Scientology is bullshit, its just like Heroin…why would you even start??? You have to be either 1) fucking retarded or 2) have some sort of deep seated need which isn’t being fufilled. I think Tom Cruise is a perfect fit for Scientology…
Speaking of which, the man is gay, right? Isn’t his little concubine just a ’show’ to allow him to keep snagging ‘leading man’ roles? They did that shit all the time back in the old days “oh he is gay, but its alright, we’ll hook him up with this chick, they’ll get some publicity, and his next movie will gross fine”.

“Its alright Tom, you can come out of the closet now” - if I remember correctly, a line from that episode of South Park…

I love South Park…who else is going to fight the good fight? Sad, isn’t it? Or insipiring? I can’t tell…but at least it makes me happy!

http://www.pierretristam.com/Bobst/Contributors/JD030806.htm#1

Dunno if this is true, but it sounds right up my alley:

President George W. Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear Mr. President:

As a young man I was honored to serve our nation as a commissioned officer and helicopter pilot in the
U. S. Navy. Before me in WWII, my father defended the country spending two years in the Pacific aboard the U.S.S. Hornet (CV-14). We were patriots sworn “to protect and defend”. Today I conclude that you have dishonored our service and the Constitution and principles of our oath. My dad was buried with full military honors so I cannot act for him. But for myself, I return enclosed the symbols of my years of service: the shoulder boards of my rank and my Naval Aviator’s wings.

Until your administration, I believed it was inconceivable that the United States would ever initiate an aggressive and preemptive war against a country that posed no threat to us. Until your administration, I thought it was impossible for our nation to take hundreds of persons into custody without provable charges of any kind, and to “disappear” them into holes like Gitmo, Abu Ghraib and Bagram. Until your administration, in my wildest legal fantasy I could not imagine a U.S. Attorney General seeking to justify torture or a President first stating his intent to veto an anti-torture law, and then adding a “signing statement” that he intends to ignore such law as he sees fit. I do not want these things done in my name.

As a citizen, a patriot, a parent and grandparent, a lawyer and law teacher I am left with such a feeling of loss and helplessness. I think of myself as a good American and I ask myself what can I do when I see the face of evil? Illegal and immoral war, torture and confinement for life without trial have never been part of our Constitutional tradition. But my vote has become meaningless because I live in a safe district drawn by your political party. My congressman is unresponsive to my concerns because his time is filled with lobbyists’ largess. Protests are limited to your “free speech zones”, out of sight of the parade. Even speaking openly is to risk being labeled un-American, pro-terrorist or anti-troops. And I am a disciplined pacifist, so any violent act is out of the question.

Nevertheless, to remain silent is to let you think I approve or support your actions. I do not. So, I am saddened to give up my wings and bars. They were hard won and my parents and wife were as proud as I was when I earned them over forty years ago. But I hate the torture and death you have caused more than I value their symbolism. Giving them up makes me cry for my beloved country.

Joseph W. DuRocher

If it is true, my hat goes off to Mr. DuRocher…unfortunately, this isn’t the first time (and won’t be the last) that ‘un-American’ activities have occurred under the guise of defending liberty or freedom (see post below about 1984…).

Things are coming to a head.  The wave is building.  It will crash.  An unstable structure will be replaced with a more stable one.  We’ll pick up the pieces, and if we are lucky, learn from our mistakes so that others in the future need not repeat them.

So, a couple months ago I built myself a computer for work. Inexpensive components, but it was pretty kick ass, and had some decent headroom. Easily more powerful than my home computer even, but pretty much dirt cheap. I liked it, and used it for a month or two…and then it started fucking up. Dunno why, still don’t…so I RMA’ed the board and got a new one. In the mean time, I thought about it and decided maybe I wanted a laptop instead, so I did that and really enjoy the laptop for work (I like sitting 16″ away from a 17″ LCD heh…)…
So I had basically wasted about $500 of company money on a computer I wasn’t using…pops OLD computer finally bit the dust (again, a home-grown roll-it-yourself rig I built a couple years ago). I was suprised it lasted as long actually…so I gave him my computer with a fresh board from Chaintech, and everything was fine for a month or so (again). Instead of it dying completley like it did for me, it was more…insidious…woulnd’t attach images to emails sometimes, would freeze or hang at odd times, but as much as I tested it I couldn’t find ‘one thing’ wrong with it…finally, it became absurd, so I found a $350 Dell Optiplex 170L and figured, thats it, we’re going to do it, ‘You’re gettin a Dell, dude!’.

Its definately a $350 computer, but it does what it is supposed to (attach pics to emails, for example) without complaining…I’ve fucked around with this Chaintech based computer for about two days now, with nothing to show…I KNOW the CDROM is no good, but beyond that the thing is a fucking mystery to me…grr…hopefully I’ll salvage it, its too powerful to go to waste…(insert evil laugh here)

A week or two ago Kell and I got a trampoline from Dicks Sporting Goods (motto: girls love Dicks!). It is so much fun, and fucking real work, its wonderful…more fun (and dangerous) with two people…anyway, last night Kell had these fuzzy socks on and we were generating these static bolts of lightning…seriously, you could hear a crackle well before you were close enough to discharge…the biggest I saw was about three inches, and they fucking hurt! So we were bouncing around, trying to joust at each other while avoiding being catapaulted to our deaths (or at least a world of pain) until we’d have to lay down and catch our breath…who knew burning calories could be so much fun!

Started reading 1984 again, a classic:

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
And who could forget:

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU

The adminstrations favorite book, 1984 is their fucking WET DREAM…hell, we are more than half-way there, read it again…compare and contrast, children…
What the fuck are they reading in school these days? You’d think if it was 1984 we’d have more outrage and intolerance of being fed bullshit and swallowing it lying down…hell, 1984 is probably already proscribed material in anything outside of a liberal college, where it is preaching to the choir…