…and the following is a small sampling of the junk I’ve been accumulating recently…
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Did you know that Arlen Specter loves the Iraq War so much that he stayed up all night filibustering to prevent any change in the Status Quo? Thanks, Arlen Specter! Make sure you jot down a quick note of support yourself, it only takes a minute and it is very easy! Here is what I wrote:
“Hello.
I cannot believe what the GOP recently did. It really takes guts to stand up to the public of the United States and say point blank: “We don’t care what you think, we don’t care what you want”.
As you may or may not have noticed during the last elections, that kind of disregard for constituents lost a lot of representatives their cushy positions.
Do not think that you are exempt from removal. Sometimes, I almost have respect for your occasional attempts at decency, and then something like this happens: you cave so deeply to the basest and most vile aspects of our government that I can’t help but think you are beyond redemption.
Please, the damage control needs to start now. Change needs to start now.
Do the right thing, Senator, and return Iraq to the Iraqi citizens. Do the right thing, and oppose the President and the Vice President at EVERY STEP POSSIBLE. Isn’t it pathetically obvious that the President and Vice President are wrong about every possible thing at every possible instance? Is there anything they haven’t lied about yet? Their incompetence is calculated to create the most damage, the most destruction, and the most profit.
Is that the legacy that you want to be remembered for?
“I stood with President Bush as the United States devolved into a brutal dictatorship”.”
You letter needn’t be as long or as crazy as mine. Simply saying “Dear Senator, You were terribly wrong to filibuster troop removal in Iraq, and I am very disappointed and will do my best to stop your re-election in the future.” is more than most people do, and if enough mail pours in it can really make a guy sit up and say “You mean my constituents are actually paying attention to what I am doing???”
Write today, this very moment. By remaining silent, we stand by our President. Dissent is patriotic!
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Rebellion. Revolution. Uprising. Popular revolt. Any way you dice it, it is looking more and more attractive with every passing day.
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I can’t improve upon this title one single bit:
War Criminal Commutes Sentence of Convicted Perjurer at Behest of Traitor
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Apparently sit ups are worthless in addition to being deadly boring, so here are two interesting alternatives. I personally prefer push-ups: quick, easy, intense.
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This is a fascinating re-examination of something as simple as walking. Makes a lot of sense, too!
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Monkey shriek! Monkey shriek!
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You can save money without supporting wage slavery. Amazing concept, not treating your employees like PIECES OF WORTHLESS SHIT.
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Yes, you can play with fake piles of money with reckless abandon, consequence free…as long as you aren’t Mr. Average Joe. In which case, you better not default on your loan or we’ll take you for everything you’re worth!!!
“Wall Street’s Jungle-esque food-processing machinery chops and dices mortgages like clams, into strips, bellies, and other parts, and peddles them to investors with different appetites for risk.
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Note the similarities—and the differences—between the neighborhoods in which subprime borrowers live and the financial neighborhood in which subprime lenders operate. Wall Street executives didn’t foreclose on the Bear Stearns hedge fund, which borrowed imprudently, because (1) the fund had a rich parent to bail it out, and (2) doing so would have imposed financial hardships on themselves, on their friends, customers, and neighbors. The residents of neighborhoods targeted by subprime lenders typically receive no such consideration. When you owe the bank $10,000, it’s your problem. When you owe the bank $10 billion, it’s the bank’s problem.”
I’m having deja vu, did I already blog this article?
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This is an amazing article, chock full of amazing theories of what it means to be a human animal:
“When there is resource inequality among men—the case in every human society—most women benefit from polygyny: women can share a wealthy man. Under monogamy, they are stuck with marrying a poorer man.
The only exceptions are extremely desirable women. Under monogamy, they can monopolize the wealthiest men; under polygyny, they must share the men with other, less desirable women. However, the situation is exactly opposite for men. Monogamy guarantees that every man can find a wife. True, less desirable men can marry only less desirable women, but that’s much better than not marrying anyone at all.
Men in monogamous societies imagine they would be better off under polygyny. What they don’t realize is that, for most men who are not extremely desirable, polygyny means no wife at all, or, if they are lucky, a wife who is much less desirable than one they could get under monogamy.”
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“A single theory can explain the productivity of both creative geniuses and criminals over the life course: Both crime and genius are expressions of young men’s competitive desires, whose ultimate function in the ancestral environment would have been to increase reproductive success.
In the physical competition for mates, those who are competitive may act violently toward their male rivals. Men who are less inclined toward crime and violence may express their competitiveness through their creative activities.
The cost of competition, however, rises dramatically when a man has children, when his energies and resources are put to better use protecting and investing in them. The birth of the first child usually occurs several years after puberty because men need some time to accumulate sufficient resources and attain sufficient status to attract their first mate. There is therefore a gap of several years between the rapid rise in the benefits of competition and similarly rapid rise in its costs. Productivity rapidly declines in late adulthood as the costs of competition rise and cancel its benefits.”
Fascinating little looks at the human animal from just slightly outside the normal perspective.
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Dude, you just totally got busted:
“Editor’s Note: The following is a letter addressed to Minnesota Republican Senator Norm Coleman — a strong advocate of the brutal federal drug laws on the books — reminding him that he used to be a happy, safe, fun-loving pot smoker.
My friend Norman,
Years ago, in a lifetime far away, you did not oppose the legalization of marijuana. Years ago, in our dorm rooms at Hofstra University, you, me, Billy, your future brother-in-law, Ivan, Jonathan, Peter, Janet, Nancy and a wealth of other students smoked dope…”
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False flag operations. Just another day in the Bush Administration:
“Is it possible that the anthrax attacks were launched from within our own government? A former Bush 1 advisor thinks it is.
Francis A. Boyle, an international law expert who worked under the first Bush Administration as a bioweapons advisor in the 1980s, has said that he is convinced the October 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people were perpetrated and covered up by criminal elements of the U.S. government. The motive: to foment a police state by killing off and intimidating opposition to post-9/11 legislation such as the USA PATRIOT Act and the later Military Commissions Act.
“After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Bush Administration tried to ram the USA PATRIOT Act through Congress,” Boyle said in a radio interview with Austin-based talk-show host Alex Jones. “That would have set up a police state.
“Senators Tom Daschle (D-South Dakota) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) were holding it up because they realized what this would lead to. The first draft of the PATRIOT Act would have suspended the writ of habeas corpus [which protects citizens from unlawful imprisonment and guarantees due process of law]. Then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, come these anthrax attacks.”"
If the idea of False Flag operations strikes you as absurdly paranoid, check out the movie Terrorstorm (you can watch the movie at that link if the desire so strikes you). It will replace the word absurd with healthy in reference to paranoia, I’m sure…
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We’re wiretapping you, but pretend you didn’t just find out, please:
“Imagine a government agency, in a bureaucratic foul-up, accidentally gives you a copy of a document marked “top secret.” And it contains a log of some of your private phone calls.
You read it and ponder it and wonder what it all means. Then, two months later, the FBI shows up at your door, demands the document back and orders you to forget you ever saw it.
By all accounts, that’s what happened to Washington D.C. attorney Wendell Belew in August 2004. And it happened at a time when no one outside a small group of high-ranking officials and workaday spooks knew the National Security Agency was listening in on Americans’ phone calls without warrants. Belew didn’t know what to make of the episode. But now, thanks to that government gaffe, he and a colleague have the distinction of being the only Americans who can prove they were specifically eavesdropped upon by the NSA’s surveillance program.”
Whoopsie! Please don’t look at the police state behind the curtain…
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I don’t drink from Starbucks, but this article makes me want to try a short…
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A dry look at how the human desire for Truth has been exploited by the Man over the past 10,000 years or more…
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Now, this is really triggering the old deja vu. I have got to foster better internal organizational skills, my del.icio.us is getting out of hand. It is a REAL shame that it isn’t faster and easier to work with the tagnames…anyway, Rick Santorum threatens a False Flag operation:
“…they also understand that between now and November, a lot of things are going to happen, and I believe that by this time next year, the American public’s going to have a very different view of this war, and it will be because, I think, of some unfortunate events…”
Oh really, Mr. Slimebag Cocksucker Santorum, do tell. Please share with the group what your handlers have shared with you regarding the future events…
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Remind me to never visit China:
“Chinese writer Zhou Qing has even produced a book that evokes “The Jungle.” His “What Kind of God,” a 2006 finalist for the Lettre Ulysses Award, tells of monstrous abuses: soy sauce bulked up with arsenic-tainted human hair; hormone-infused snack foods that grow facial hair on 6-year-old boys and breasts on 7-year-old girls; dangerous drugs fed to pigs to make their meat look better. Zhou’s book concludes: “While cracking down on the immediate perpetrators of food-safety incidents, it’s even more critical that we crack down on the officials who bear responsibility.”"
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Mr. Suit – ‘What do you mean, just ‘give something away‘. You mean, free? Excuse me, I’ve just vomited down the front of my shirt’:
“If it’s hard economic arguments you prefer, bear in mind that making use of free public transit eliminates the significant costs of fare collection and combating fare evasion (more on this later in the series). It also cuts costs associated with global warming, air and noise pollution, litter collection and garbage removal.
As our own premier trumpets a green agenda, more people are taking a hard look at just how many of their tax dollars subsidize the private car versus less polluting buses and trains. You have to figure in roads, parking and other infrastructure, tax breaks for car and fuel companies, as well as subsidies for car ferries throughout the province and federal income tax reductions and write-offs for companies that use motor vehicles.
Todd Litman of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute has estimated that in 2000 the government subsidy to each private vehicle owner was about $5,378 in Canadian dollars.
In that year, the average cost of providing each trip taken by transit in Vancouver was approximately $5. The equivalent subsidy for transit users would have been 1,075 free trips. Few of us could even use that many.
In fact, if the subsidy given private car owners were simply handed over to each car-free transit user, bus riders would make money for taking transit!”
Oh…when you put it like that…
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An excellent rant:
“First of all, I have no respect for any of these politicians that say they believe that God created Adam and Eve and he created this world in seven days. If you are a politician that believes in the creationist theory, than you are either stupid, too stupid to hold office, or you are a liar, and you are lying to get stupid Christians that believe that to vote for you. In both cases, you are not qualified to hold political office. You should resign.”
But it is actually a rant against Bush and Cheney. I just had to quote that bit for its Baby Jesus factor…
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Alright. Hopefully I picked up a couple things that slipped through the cracks over the past two weeks without repeating myself. I can’t remember and can’t be bothered to go and actually read my blog to check, but that is fine as you probably don’t remember either…
