Pollywogs!

Posh shit, baby shit, ginger shit…

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This is a fascinating article detailing exactly why we use fake money, and yet no one seems to notice or care…it is a real history of the concept of money, and how money has diverged from a backing standard to disastrous results time and time again. It also gives a good explanation of exactly what inflation is to me, Mr. Average Joe, and how the rich and powerful pull the puppet strings with wild, reckless abandon while everyone else’s lives swing in the balance. Excellent, highly recommended read!

“The brief monetary history of Rome is intended to establish the fact that the State has sought to engage in theft from the citizenry via monetary debasement from the very dawn of Western civilization. The focus on the 17th century application of the tally stick system in the UK as well as the focus of the transformation of London’s goldsmiths to bankers is meant to establish from whence the idea of putting together a workable fiat money system stems. This is an extremely important part of monetary history but is generally a less well known one.

The above historical recap was written to fill in some additional as well as essential information if one wants to understand how we arrived where we are today. With that history lesson out of the way, let’s now address the question we asked at the top. How did worthless objects come into widespread acceptance as money?”

Related: what happens when a credit spree pops. Of course, if you read the previous article you’d already know.

Further related: Warren Buffet isn’t a complete mega-rich cocksucker. He’s trying to warn everyone without creating waves so high that they sink the ship:

“Buffett said he makes $46 million a year in income and is only taxed at a 17.7 percent rate on his federal income taxes. By contrast, those who work for him, and make considerably less, pay on average about 32.9 percent in taxes - with the highest rate being 39.7 percent.

To emphasize his point, Buffett offered $1 million to the audience member who could show that one of the nation’s wealthiest individuals pays a higher tax rate than one of their subordinates.

“I’m willing to bet anyone in this room $1 million that those rates are less than the secretary has to pay,” said Buffett.”

Potentially related: the end of peak suburbia:

“It is not an accident that the housing bubble coincided with the phenomenon of Peak Oil. First of all, the housing bubble should more properly be called the suburban bubble, because most of the activity came in the form of “greenfield” housing subdivisions, and included all the additional crap-o-la accessories required by them — strip malls, power centers, Outback steak houses, car washes, et cetera. The suburban expansion has been based entirely on cheap-and-abundant supplies of oil.”

I was just thinking that rural living for anyone other than farmers or forest products folks is simply retarded and ought to carry some penalty, preferably higher energy prices for transportation. I completely forgot that oil was not a renewable resource and that gasoline is only going up!

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Intentional or unintentional negligence led to 9/11? The more I read and learn, the more it looks like INTENTIONAL.

Tenet warning of Al Qaeda days before the strike (and everyone afterwards parroting ‘no one could have predicted’…except for the head of the fucking CIA WHO TOLD YOU POINT BLANK YOU FUCKING CUNTS).

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Dick Cheney knowing that the hour of their Pearl Harbor had arrived and ordering a stand-down response to maximize the IMPACT for political purpose. Suck on those apples…

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We basically killed those Americans and brought down the Twin Towers ourselves. Me, Mr. George Bush and me, Mr. Dick Cheney. And, of course, we’re responsible for all of the death, destruction and public theft/defrauding that has occured since then as well.

http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/260607_mineta.html:

“Mineta confirmed his statements with reporters, saying “When I overheard something about ‘the orders still stand’ and so, what I thought of was that they had already made the decision to shoot something down.”

Norman Mineta made it clear to reporters– who verified his quotes in written text alongside him– that Mineta was indeed talking about a stand down order not to shoot down hijacked aircraft headed for the Pentagon.”

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I’m retarded. Or not retarded. One of those two. You may be (not) retarded too…

“Why should this be? The authors argued that prefrontal cortex allows for “sculpting of the response space” - in other words, prefrontal cortex is used to guide and control the mental search for a solution. Normally such “cognitive guidance” is a good thing … but it can be bad for solutions which require thinking outside the box - outside the normal, real-world constraints we place on workable solutions.”

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Finally. Remember that Italian study I posted about a while back where aspartame caused cancer? Well, guess what, the FDA says we don’t have to worry! Wow, I feel so much safer now!!!

‘The CSPI said the Acceptable Daily Intake of aspartame in the United States was 50 mg per kilogram of body weight, equivalent to a 20 kg child drinking 2.5 cans of diet soft drink a day, or a 68 kilogram adult drinking about 7.5 cans a day.

The Italian researchers found a cancer risk at the very highest doses - double the US Acceptable Daily Intake.

Merisant, which makes Equal, said in a statement on its website: “The safety of aspartame has been confirmed by regulatory authorities in more than 100 countries, including the US Food and Drug Administration, Health Canada, and the European Commission’s Scientific Committee on Food, as well as by experts with the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization and World Health Organization.”‘

Ahh, so the people who make it say it is safe and the FDA says it is safe…as long as a kid doesn’t have more than 5 cans per day. And then it may cause cancer. I guess it depends upon what the definition of ’safe’ is…

EDIT: Minor grammatical changes, ugh…

So a couple days ago I was forced to come out of the closet.

If you’d like to know what it’s like to play BF2, watch this video:

So. I like this game. I recently started taking it more seriously (read: getting gayer) and joined this clan whose server I was playing on a lot. I slowly became a better player and stopped being ashamed of dominating bitches. Now, I revel in the murder while I slaughter the bitches (on a good day). So, when there were murmurings in the clan of joining TWL (Team Warfare League) I thought great! I’m all about competition when it comes to harmless, consequence free video games. So we had our first practice this last week, it was interesting and I learned a lot of things I had been doing aren’t going to work on a small 5 versus 5 map. I also learned to hide my gayness as it will only result in merciless taunting from those around me. So now I’m going to turn off the lights, pull closed the curtains and go do some gay shit for a bit…

UPDATE: It appears this post is rendered terribly by IE. I’m sorry that you are still using IE.

So I’ve read that some folks say they’d like a constitutional amendment because it appeals to a certain voter base: there are those who clamor for, and those who promise to deliver, a constitutional protection of prayer in school….

This is wrong on every level…

Do you want to vote for a politician who legislates items which simply look good on paper? The kind that says “I voted for puppies and kittens, and my opponent voted for SATAN and SODOMY” next election cycle.

Regardless of what this amnesiac nation would like to believe, this is not a Christian nation. Never has been, and only recently has been delivered through the back door. Yep, you read that right: America has been fucked in the ass by the jesus-types. God in the Pledge of Allegiance? Enacted the last time the nation was whipped into a mindless frenzy by the fear mongers, the time in the 1950’s, thanks to the supreme mother fucker McCarthy, that logic and reason easily yielded to sensationalistic fear-mongering whores. You know what else was railroaded into the tight, nervous anus of the public in the 1950’s? In God We Trust on the money. Which is why I rather enjoy de-godding my money from time to time, think of it as a public service which doesn’t render the money unfit to reissue…

Next you have the real fucking fishhook through the brain, the fact that anyone can pray at any time for any reason without interference from anyone. Oh, except Muslims, but they aren’t really people anyway, they’re just terrorists. Since you can sit in class and take a private moment to pray without fucking alarms going off shrieking ‘PRAYER ALERT’ while thugs come running down the aisles slapping each kid in turn on the back of the head to knock the god out of them…since you can subversively pray in school without the atheists getting their panties in a bunch as it is, why again do we need to make a fucking amendment to protect the right?

Well, if they are going to put god in my government, in my pledge, in my money and in my schools, at least they’re going to protect the rights of all religious types, right? The next amendment is going to set aside time throughout the day for people to pray towards Mecca, right? I mean, all of these cock-suckers aren’t just raging hypocrites, are they?

Oh wait, this was all just a mental exercise, they never intended any of this drivel to be written to law. That’d just be insane! All they were looking for was something nice to write on their resume when they came to hand it to the American public and proclaim “I’m just like you, I love God and our Christian nation. You can safely vote for me knowing that I am share your same belief that sodomy is a sin and those who practice it will burn in hell for eternity”.

I feel safer already, especially when I remember that George Bush gets his instructions directly from god…

When you read shit like this:

“An amendment is needed not to mandate or even to encourage school prayer but to restore to the people their right and responsibility to deliberate and decide a question that bears upon the kind of education they want for their children.”

These assholes are framing the argument in a fashion where a godless alternative doesn’t even exist. What kind of educfuckigncation? Are you kidding me? These fucking jesus whores can’t even agree whether the world was created before or after the Sumerians invented beer, for fucks sake…fundies and moderates, all cut from the same irrational cloth, unfit to decide upon the most fundamental questions, much less decide for someone else how the public educational system should operate upon their neighbors children. Religious tolerance allows the bastards to go to church as often as they want, to pray to whatever pretend bit of idol their pews are placed in front of, and yet the crazy fucks always want more…

Misguided, unnecessary, hypocritical, deluded…

For a ‘more better’ look at the case against school prayer, continue on here. It’s sorta like what I wrote, but deftly written, expertly presented and notably devoid of the word fuck. This is worth reading over as well…

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I wrote this basically to contrast how even someone like the holy Ron Paul, who is currently seen as the almighty resurrection of Christ to the many Republicans who are scrambling to someone to cling onto, is just another guy trying to get elected.

Ron Paul is consistent. Ron Paul isn’t a hypocrite. Ron Paul is a real person, not a politician…blah blah blah. Might as well elect fucking Lyndon Larouche.

School prayer is a non-issue, useless fluff used to confuse and distract the masses, to build the support of the proles while the rich and the powerful fuck the life out of anything they can get their greasy claws on.

May I recommend the movie “Why We Fight” to help refocus your eyes on the actual important aspects of modern reality?

Oh, my pussy hurts:

“But a group of senators close to the auto industry — both Democrats and Republicans — argue that carmakers can’t meet that steep of an increase, especially for SUVs and small trucks. They will try to get approval this week for a more modest boost in the federal requirement to 36 mpg for cars and 30 mpg for SUVs and pickups by 2025.”

Whaaa whaaa whaaa, what a bunch of corporate ball-sucks…Jesus H Fucking Christ…if I had any say in a major automobile manufacturing company, I’d be saying “What can we be doing RIGHT NOW to help reduce our global dependence on fossil fuels, reduce global greenhouse gases and in general increase efficiency?”. As a good and concerned global citizen, that is the least any human can do. But no, these corporate cocksuckers want to suck life dry today, maximize profits, boost the stock value, get their fucking “dollar”, rape the corpse and shit on the children. God bless capitalism. Market forces will prevail. When the oil is gone, cars will no longer run on gasoline…the environment, global warming, all that other minor shit…what does it mean to our stock price TODAY? Oh yea, fuck it. Just fuck it…

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If this wasn’t so close to the truth, it would be a lot easier to enjoy…

Related: ever wonder why none of the important news is reported on TV?

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The United States is fucking gigantic. We have no idea how fucking gigantic we are…

When an elephant takes a dump, it leaves a very big pile.  The elephant turns around and says ‘that looks about right’, while the person whom it crapped on exclaims ‘oh my, that is a lot of crap!’.

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Like the abomination that are ‘the shrimp’, or blended fabrics, comes a scientific definition of Pi. And, as you are likely well aware, being a good Christian, you are to slaughter the non-believer (you say Crusade, I say Jihad…), even if they are your own flesh and blood. So, go to the nearest school and begin to cleanse the unbelievers and their ’science’ which claims the outrageous falsehood, foisted by Satan himself upon our poor children’s malleable minds, that Pi is anything OTHER than 3….and to those deluded cunts who claim the Old Testament is somehow ‘different’ from the New Testament (dare I state ‘less valid’?), let me clue you in on a little secret…

THEY’RE BOTH FUCKING FICTION.

Time to take off the training wheels and own up to personal responsibility, you don’t need an old man sky-god to keep you civilized.

“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)

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Parenting, Garrett-style (or, do the French lock their kids in the linen closet when they’re unbearable?). Neither extreme, neither ’system’ seems ideal does it, the standard American treatment with the prerequisite Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset, or the French ’shut up while the adults are talking’…

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Ok. My company gets your husband killed in Iraq. We won’t tell you the details, and when you sue for answers, we sue you back for $10 Million which you pathetically obviously do not have. Isn’t the legal system just grand?

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Speaking of dying in Iraq, we did a much better job the first time through.

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When crime is made illegal, only criminals will break the law. Oh wait, you mean you can’t simply plop down law willy-nilly and then expect folks to follow it? You can’t even get them to use their turn-signals on a regular basis?

“Many allocate blame to street gangsters for this sorry state of affairs — the idea being that if it weren’t for these aggressive and money-hungry “pushers,” we wouldn’t have such a problem. However, this reasoning is incomplete: It fails to consider the demand generated by millions of Canadians of all ages who, at least once this year, will act on their desire and make a back-alley purchase of an illicit drug.”

The reasoning is incomplete. So easy to overlook that vital component in the valuation of street drugs: prohibition. The organized crime boss’s favorite money-making tool…

“Rather than continue to incur only the massive costs of the drug trade — addictions, policing, corrections and loss of life — why not also capture the massive financial benefit (over $400-billion in North America alone), which we presently reserve for the exclusive enjoyment of street gangs and other criminal organizations?”

$400 billion, eh? And is it any wonder that drug cartels lobby Washington just like any other big business?

Wouldn’t you know it. Haven’t had an accident in over a decade. Brand new fucking car. Jesus H Fucking Christ. About two hours ago, I murdered a deer on Route 120 ten miles west of Lock Haven.

I hadn’t gotten around to posting about my car yet, but I love it. It is a 2007 Toyota Prius Package #2, dark grey…wonderful wonderful car. I was driving along, singing along to the Arctic Monkeys, thinking about looking forward to filling up the tank when I got back to town (I spent the whole trip maximizing my milage, doing whatever I could to go farther on a drop of gas).

I can’t tell anymore. I just don’t know.

I remember seeing the deer at eye level about four feet off the right hand side of my car, the next time slice was the bang and it landing square in front of me at bumper height, I look to the left and it is spinning off through the weeds along the road, going 50 some miles per hour along side my car, spinning…it was like a fucking movie, surreal…

Anyway, all I can hope is that fucking deer didn’t have a chance to reproduce before evolution stepped in…

Car brand new, day I brought it home:

Car two weeks later, 1100 miles, 6:45PM:

Hats off to the state police. The trooper handling the issue has been one of the nicest, most friendly ‘customer service reps’ I’ve dealt with in a long time. The fucking tard who took my call at the State Farm service center, however, didn’t know their head from their ass and was just about the saddest excuse for a service rep this side of Comcast…