Pollywogs!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6187666924357770983

For free. Streaming, or download the whole thing while you can.  The download version is of higher video quality.

Pretty intense imagery or an intense song.

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/TDS-Phonescam-Fox.wmv

What does it have for you?  Truth, insight, irony, satire, and…most important…boxing cats! 

Source

CBS News Reports

My favorite quotes:

"I think what we like about ethanol, in this case is that there are things that we can really do right now. It doesn't require massive technology breakthroughs, and it does legitimately reduce the amount of oil the country has to import," says Wagoner. 

 

Meints thinks some people may have thought the plan to get into ethanol production was crazy, and he admits that not all of his friends and neighbors invested in the project. But he says that was their loss. "I think most of 'em that didn't [invest] now wish they would have," he says.

That’s because business is very good. The plant opened just a year ago and quickly hit maximum capacity.

Larry Hansen, a member of the plant's board of directors, says the biggest impact on the community has been that the price of corn in the area rose from five to 10 cents a bushel.

"If you've got eight million bushels coming in, all that extra money that was being sent down the river is now here in the community," says Seward, who is also on the board. 

 

Then, under high temperatures, the mixture is distilled in a giant version of an old-fashioned corn-liquor still. What emerges at the end is ethanol, which is nearly pure alcohol. Trucks carry it to a nearby railroad line…"Ethanol has been one of the best-kept secrets that is out there. We know it’s a good product. We know it's good for the economy. We know it’s good for the environment," says Granzow.

And more and more people are seeing it that way. To meet rising demand, the plant will expand to double its capacity by next year. But the farmers who run the place are already thinking beyond that: to a new process of making ethanol from cellulose, instead of corn. This would be much cheaper, because cellulose is found in everything from prairie grass to agricultural waste to wood chips.

 

…and the winner is…

 

Oil industry executives, taking heat from Congress over their multi-billion-dollar record profits, favor a different approach. They want to spend billions find to new sources of oil, which is more expensive to produce, instead of switching over to E85. 

 

The moral of the story?  If Exxon dumped billions into Ethanol infrastructure today instead of giving it away to some fat-cat CEO, global tensions (read: why are we interested in Iran/Iraq?) would go down as oil demand went down, the environment would benefit from the cleaner burning fuel and hundreds of communities would have a solid, clean industry which provided money back into the locals instead of pumping it out to the aforementioned fat cat.  But, no, its a much better to give it away as a bonus to some rich fuck who is going to have a real hard time affording retirement…

Viva la Revolucion!

Read this over at DailyKos:

 Yes, my conservative friends, George Bush has sold you down the river. Now, you're finally starting to suspect that it was never about abortion or limiting government or even national security. Those were just useful emotional distractions held by the left hand so that the right one could deftly rip-off the Federal Treasury and enact measures preventing We the People from interfering with the heist. True, a lot of people here on Daily Kos would take this chance to laugh at your naiveté, because you stood behind this President after so many cluster-fucks, scams, and lies that we figure you should have known better by now. But you're loyal, in an abused-spouse-on-COPS kind of way, and that's an admirable quality even when tragically misplaced. So let me instead warmly welcome you to the reality based community!

Here : that little tidbit puts some starch in my spine for some reason… 

But, that is just a distraction from my I wanted to post an entry.  Which I have now forgotten.  Lets hope it comes back…

Oh yea, it was because of my eBay RAGE :

Note: Every eBay user has a Feedback profile made up of comments from othereBay users.

Thank you so much for your business.

 

 

I immediately sent the assfuck an email: are you holding my feedback hostage?

Let me break it down in little, easy to understand bites:

Item is for sale (seller).

Item is bid on and won (buyer).

Item is paid for (buyer, buyer responsibility completed).

Item is shipped, received by buyer (seller, after inspection, seller responibility complete).

I completed my end of the transaction promptly at auctions end, when I paid for the item.  Of course, I am powerless to post neutral feedback in any of these little shits profiles, because even though I sucessfully completed my part of the auction, if I say 'item was as described, held my feedback hostage' in their profile, guess what happens to my feedback?  Thats right!

Do you have broadband internet? Were you paying for those calls?  Would you rather they be free?

Skype.com has gone 100% free for the next year or two (outgoing).  Download and install skype, signup (easy and free) and you can now make PC to PC calls (excellent quality, blows phone lines out of the water by far) for free.  Now the good part:

Since they've gone 100% free, you can call from your computer to a plain old phone.  I called my cell and left myself a message, since I don't make any toll calls.  But I bet you do.  And…now you don't have to pay for them.  If you were putting off buying a decent microphone, now is the time to stop resisting and give in…I mean, you can call California and talk for eight hours…its FREE!

[G.O.B]Come ON![/G.O.B]