Season Finale…
June 4th, 2007…boy. If I had watched them all at once, I would have been overcome…if it wasn’t for the Office, the change would have swept over my television environment, wiping out what once was and replacing it with a new and strange landscape, reminiscent of the past from memory but so different in apperance to be a new and terrifying unknown. If Jim had stayed in New York…
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You may remember me getting a kick out of this. It isn’t a novelty. And, it isn’t just a passing fancy of mine…
“A poll this year by the University of Vermont’s Center for Rural Studies found that 13 percent of those surveyed support secession, up from 8 percent a year before.”
Now THAT is some severe fucking dissatisfaction. And you know the Bush regime won’t invade, there sure as fuck isn’t any oil in Vermont…
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I like the idea of a woman president. Just, not a fucking shill. Oh, and one that doesn’t just spout the drivel written by the stiffs who poll the focus groups. I’d like someone with some independent thought…
This is interesting. Can I say that I believe George Bush to be the anti-christ in every way reasonably possible? Does that earn me a one way to our torture facility in Cuba?
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Yawn. I mean, many already know that 9/11 and the London subway bombings were inside jobs…this poor fool Milligan realizes the reasons without knowing his masters already have their fingers on the buttons…
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Double standards are human nature. It is about time that culture at large begins to let go of this nanny mentality that seems so prevalent, but I wonder how long it will take the accepted norm to catch up with the stated norm…
This is good tho:
“One group at least modestly turning away from marijuana is middle- and high-schoolers, ages 12 to 17. The percentage who have used pot at least once dropped from more than 20 percent in 2000 to about 17 percent in 2005, federal researchers say.”
I didn’t get drunk once before 16, rarely got high or drunk until I was 17 or 18. It is bad for your development, and I don’t know if kids are just to busy fucking these days or what, but the longer you can put off drug use, the better. Now, put down the doughnut, turn off the computer and go outside…
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This story about this talented athlete was a meme for a bit, then as all things it died down. Until this hilarious (or terribly sad reflection on human nature, see ‘double standard’ above) little outtake from the whole thing I found via Reddit:
“In other words, it’s his daughter, and of course he’s doing all he can to ensure she’s safe now that her photo is plastered all over the internet in a sexual context. But he seemed to not only lack concern but to show outright disdain for the woman who was sexually assaulted by a traffic cop and for the girl who was gang-raped. From his previous comments, he seems to desire a world in which reprehensible treatment of women (sexual assault, harassment, rape) is a-OK.”
…with massive doublethink like that going on in his head, the guy is 99% likely a republican…they’re quite expert at those mind games…to quote Wikipedia quoting Orwell:
“The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. … To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies—all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth.”
For some reason, I am reminded of House. Dr. House reflects a near perfect image of man in his current state for the past six thousand to sixty thousand some years: an intelligent, reasoning animal that is still blinded from and by the simple workaday psychobaggage of the human condition that plagues his existence and complicates his intended progress through life, blind to the reasonable facts by the necessarily convoluted manner of his social/emotional interactions. Brain damaged, one may say, by the need to daily navigate incredibly complex interpersonal relationships…
Or: life isn’t complicated. People are…
What is a fucking schill?
I think we should all make “mark of the beast” comments when it is time to renew our licenses. I just don’t even know what to say about them suspending his license. It goes against everything this country is supposed to about.
I think Hillary’s statements about 9/11 are being misunderstood. First of all, would she really want to imply that the rest of us didn’t suffer at all? I’m sure she would realize how that would be taken. She was just saying that someone who lives that close to where the act took place might have a different view. I can see why that statement might offend some but let’s not overreact here. Second, she didn’t say that the country of Iraq had anything to do with what happened on 9/11. She was expressing that she feels there is a connection between terrorism in general and the war in Iraq. We really don’t know if that is true or not but a lot of people do think so and why can’t she express that opinion? I like the statement, “I take responsibility for having voted to give him that authority,” she said. “My focus is on what we do now. That is the proper debate.” Sure it does matter how we ended up where we are now (because there may be some reason for legal action and people may need to be punished) but how we got there doesn’t need to be a factor in deciding what we do over in Iraq now. We need to focus on a solution.
I wish everyone would stop spending time, money, and energy worrying about how much weed people are smoking. For the love of god don’t we have bigger issues to tackle? I do agree that it’s better for the youngsters to stay away from it though.
I haven’t watched a lot of House but I think he suffers from Existential Depression.
I misspelled shill. A definition from Wikipedia:
“A shill is an associate of a person selling a good or service, who pretends no association and assumes the air of an enthusiastic customer. The intention of the shill is, using crowd psychology, to encourage other potential customers, unaware of the set-up, to purchase said good or service.”
I think Hillary is a consummate politician, not an instrument of change.
She may be taken out of context, but what I notice is that it seems she is hitting a list of talking points, rather than trying to express her actual position. The war in Iraq was and is simple: we were lied into war. Assembled as a list, her comments smack of fear mongering (the elusive and all-powerful ‘they’), which works very well to build support among people who are easily cowed, and her words sound very Presidential. Which is likely exactly what the people who generated her script informed her of, and why they assured her it was important to ‘hit these talking points’ to form new Presidential associations between the word Hillary and Iraq, war, enemies, 9/11, etc etc.
She may have a good set of goals, but every time she speaks, every time she appears…I get the feeling I am watching a very carefully orchestrated event. Which is why I feel she is a consummate politician and likely, eventually a shill for special interests mostly interested in power. Already the democrats are trying to sneak their special interest spending by without proper supervision, trying to hide what money is going where, acting defensive about the type of things that we the people were so frustrated with the Republicans for…
23 Senators voted against the Iraq war. I think we all had more than enough doubt as to what was going on at the time to generate an actual debate about the issue, but a lot of Democrats handed the President a blank check. I think we need a more significant change than Hillary can provide.
I agree, Fuck Hillary! We need Oprah!!!!!
I think it’s awesome what people in Vermont are trying to do…even if it never happens.
Oh, I have to get my license renewed by the end of the month…in fact I am planning on doing it tomorrow. I don’t know if I have it in me to actually make a “mark of the beast” comment though….
Hillary is definitely not my favorite. I think people in her position are screwed no matter what they say however. Some people are criticizing her because she isn’t doing enough to support the war and other people are criticizing her because she isn’t against it enough. I will not be voting for Hillary in the primary but if she turns out to be the democratic candidate I will vote for her. I used to want Oprah to be president but after she endorsed that book, the Secret, I’ve changed my mind.
I love the Vermont thing too.
In talking to others around here, I think that maybe PA is not doing the fingerprint thing yet anyhow.