Pollywogs!

So it looks like the rest of the world is finally starting to wrestle with the realization that the United States is spinning out of control with a madman who does not give a fuck at the wheel. Global markets are in decline, the US markets are down 10-15% (actually back to about the same levels they were spring of 2007), and the Fed is clutching at straws trying to ‘prevent a recession’. Record deficit spending, tax cuts, a dollar which has been losing value faster than they can print new bills…

But don’t worry, the rich are doing just fine. Look at ExxonMobile. Most profitable company in the history of mankind last year. You aren’t getting gouged at the pump though, they are making those astronomical profits fair and square. You can trust them. Just like the media.

Speaking of trust, the White House has been doing whatever they can to incite war with Iran. And FUCKING CONGRESS is helping them. Stupid, worthless piles of shit. When will we wake up and remember that the Public is in control of this Republic, not criminals and cunts who we ‘elected’ to a temporary position of representation. FUCK. You can’t tell, but that fuck was filled with as much contempt and derision as possible. The kind of contempt which makes you huck a rock at a corpse hanging at a gas station. The same kind of contempt the White House has for “We the People of the United States“:

“The White House “does not know if any e-mails were not properly preserved in the archiving process,” said the statement by Theresa Payton, chief information officer for the White House Office of Administration. “We are continuing our efforts,” said Payton, whose staff is responsible for the White House e-mail system.

If the e-mails were not saved, the White House might have violated two laws requiring preservation of documents that fall into the categories of federal records or presidential records.

White House spokesman Tony Fratto said that “there is no basis to say that the White House has destroyed any evidence or engaged in any misconduct.”

No basis? Really?

And just in case you had any delusions that this isn’t the New Fascist Republic of America, please re-read the definition of fascism and keep in mind the policies of the last seven years which have stripped the heart out of the Constitution:

“Fascism is an authoritarian political ideology (generally tied to a mass movement) that considers individual subordinate to the interests of the state, party or society as a whole. Fascists seek to forge a type of national unity, usually based on (but not limited to) ethnic, cultural, racial, religious attributes. The key attribute is intolerance of others: other religions, languages, political views, economic systems, cultural practices, etc. Various scholars attribute different characteristics to fascism, but the following elements are usually seen as its integral parts: nationalism, statism, militarism, totalitarianism, anti-communism, corporatism, populism, collectivism, and opposition to political and economic liberalism.”

Yes. The government is suddenly more important than the people? Since when, again? Oh yea, since the New Pearl Harbor…

Mission Accomplished!

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2012. The first year the Northern Artic will be ice free, based on the latest data. Global what?

“This week, after reviewing his own new data, NASA climate scientist Jay Zwally said: “At this rate, the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012, much faster than previous predictions.”

So scientists in recent days have been asking themselves these questions: Was the record melt seen all over the Arctic in 2007 a blip amid relentless and steady warming? Or has everything sped up to a new climate cycle that goes beyond the worst case scenarios presented by computer models?”

Oh. Thank goodness. See, no one actually KNOWS. That is the great thing about science, we can just pretend it is all ok by saying that it isn’t a fact that it is our direct fault the world in ten or twenty years is going to look nothing like the world of today. “How could we know it would be so bad, no one told us, we were helpless to change, it wasn’t our fault” and all the other bullshit that will be paraded out…

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This is an interesting compare and contrast between the “US and Iraq” and “China and the US”.

“It’s been eight years now. Eight long years. Sure, initially I was glad when China toppled the Bush regime and executed the “retarded tyrant” as I love to call him. It wasn’t that bad at the start, but as time wore on and I realized they weren’t leaving, it started to gnaw at me.”

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Here is an organization I’ve become a member of recently, because of this article:

“Days before the first presidential caucuses in a medical marijuana state, the Marijuana Policy Project today doubled its offer to presidential candidates Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Mitt Romney to back up their statements opposing medical marijuana with scientific evidence. If any of the candidates can prove his statements are true, MPP will donate the legal maximum of $10,000 to his campaign ($5,000 for the primaries, $5,000 for the general election), plus an additional $10,000 donation to the candidate’s favorite charity.”

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Don’t use the your cell phone before bed. Seriously, no lulz here:

‘Published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium and funded by the Mobile Manufacturers Forum, representing the main handset companies, it has caused serious concern among top sleep experts, one of whom said that there was now “more than sufficient evidence” to show that the radiation “affects deep sleep”……The people who had received the radiation took longer to enter the first of the deeper stages of sleep, and spent less time in the deepest one. The scientists concluded: “The study indicates that during laboratory exposure to 884 MHz wireless signals, components of sleep believed to be important for recovery from daily wear and tear are adversely affected.”‘

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A hacker group declares war on the ‘church’ of scientology. Can fucking Tom Cruise get any crazier or creepier? And how about the brainwashed Katie Holmes? If either of them actually mattered in this current clusterfuck of existence, it would be sorta sad. As it stands, they are the latest flavor to distract and numb you of the truth of the situation.

Ignore the man behind the curtain…

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Finally, on a slightly lighter note, a roundabout literally from hell…

Don’t they know that if they have a post-surge redeployment, the terrorists have won???

“Four more Republican senators have recently declared that they can no longer support Mr. Bush’s strategy, including senior lawmakers who until now had expressed their doubts only privately. As a result, some aides are now telling Mr. Bush that if he wants to forestall more defections, it would be wiser to announce plans for a far more narrowly defined mission for American troops that would allow for a staged pullback, a strategy that he rejected in December as a prescription for defeat when it was proposed by the bipartisan Iraq Study Group.”

Al Qaeda has evidently infiltrated our government. Now, Republican senators are joining the terrorist ranks themselves…how much longer before the President himself betrays mein führer, the exalted Dick Cheney himself?

‘Officials describe the meetings as more of a running discussion than an argument. They say that no one is clinging to a stay-the-course position but that instead aides are trying to game out what might happen if the president becomes more specific about the start and the shape of what the White House is calling a “post-surge redeployment.”’

THAT IS COMPLETELY FUCKING ABSURD! Of COURSE we have to ‘stay-the-course‘!!! The president and mein führer have both time and time again repeated that if we don’t stay the course, the terrorists have won.

I guess it is nearly time for them to bring out the last gag in their bag of tricks.

Praise baby Jesus…

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No. Let’s go into Iraq, mess it up AS MUCH AS WE CAN, build a bunch of gigantic bases, award billions in contracts to private companies run by our buddies and political contributors, and then try to distract the public from the fact that we just donkey punched both the Iraqi and US citizens for our own pathetic short term gain.  Excuse me, I just minivomited…

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COMPLETELY unrelated, here is a picture of a massive roundabout…

Well, at least the best post this week…

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A small company that makes nothing but fully electric cars.

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The legal distinction between pr0n and prostitution (IMHO, no, pr0n is not art. By definition.).

“In other words, prostitution is generally understood as the bilateral trading of sex for money, while pornography involves the customer of an adult film paying money to watch other people have sex with each other, while receiving no sexual favors himself in return.”

I added the italics. Something tells me that no one has really thought hard about that point, as I’m pretty damn sure that, while in general the women involved recieve no sexual favors, the men sure as fucking do (say hello to the term ‘money shot‘ to start with). Isn’t ejaculation THE sexual favor that men are looking for? Christ…

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Minnesota joins the rational world, and decides it is immoral to deny treatment to dying patients.

Tangentially related: Marijuana damages your brain and makes you criminally insane. Oh, wait…

Another tangential: Forbes gives the rich and powerful the lowdown on the reaaaal good shit…oh yea, baby, those hippies are The Man now, baby! I wonder if they hate themselves?

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An amusing photograph: is this what it is going to take to get someone impeached these days?

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Another sad story about alcohol. I’m to lazy to try to find out if this is the same thing that Sweet Adeline was talking about. Luckily I haven’t touched a drop a the demon juice since an unfortunate incident I had last Saturday involving Long Island Iced Tea and the card game Asshole…maybe I’m starting to re-grow a couple little guys, help plump things back up…

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Leik omgz ur f4m0u5!!! Actually, I’m slightly envious…

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Costco is selling Mexican Coke. And I’m not excited cause I prefer addictive drugs with the strong potential to ruin lives. High Fructose Corn Syrup, you can lick my balls. On a related note, syrup is derived from a Persian work for a thick beverage. Perhaps we should call it High Fructose Corn Freedom Juice, since Iran are ‘the bad guys‘?

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Oh shit. No, really…oh shit. Change is literally coming so fast…will we be nimble enough to hotstep through this mess without shit getting out of hand, will we react strongly to prevent as much damage as possible, or will we rush blindly into the future at full speed, knowing full well that the end ramifications, while potentially predictable, are completely unknowable in their entirety?

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More shit to give me nightmares…

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Yes, yes, we know…it is possible to change our errant ways. Now get the fuck out of the way or I’ll run your tree-hugging ass over with my Escalade, bitch.

Related: Yes yes, we know…Our Escalade belches out CO2 like a fat man at a bean-eating contest. I’m not driving that faggy little Prius. Now get the fuck out of the way or I’ll run your tree-hugging ass over with my Escalade, bitch.

Further Related: Yes, yes, we know…An Audi A4 that gets 45MPG on diesel (read: closed carbon loop bio-diesel too). Of course it isn’t avaialbe for sale in the United States. Now get the fuck out of the way or I’ll run your tree-hugging ass over with my Escalade, bitch.

Tangentially Related: Yes, yes, we know…global warming is going to kill tens of millions of people world-wide as shorelines overrun some of the most populated and impoverished areas. Now get the fuck out of the way or I’ll run your tree-hugging ass over with my Escalade, bitch.

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Shame this stinking fish isn’t released to the public. I want an excuse to have all of those slobbering cock-gobbling whoresons thrown in jail…

Related: Exactly ‘why’ Dick Cheney is such a cock-gobbling slobbering whoreson cunt bitch fuck.

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I doubt (read: I really really hope) that ‘all’ of the honey-bees are going to die. I mean, species don’t just go extinct, do they?

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A couple articles on compact fluorescents:

I wonder who would benefit from generating a new urban myth about CF bulbs? Here is another take on the same mis-information campaign.

What to do if you break a CF bulb (don’t do what I did as a child and look real close to see if you can’t find the liquid mercury to play with…).

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Anarchy driving, baby!!! I can’t wait for our local roundabouts on Via Bella (if that is what it will still be called):

	What is a roundabout?
	A roundabout is an unsignalized circular intersection. There will be 3 roundabouts constructed in the city of Williamsport at the William, Court, and Mulberry Street intersections. Studies have proven that these types of intersections can improve safety and minimize traffic delay.

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My plate is bigger than my stomach. Or, why once you’ve seen a porn star’s cock (nsfw of course, those are some big cocks, here is that one I get in my email from time to time, I’m the guy on the left: pic31.jpg), you never feel satisfied with your own meager little thing ever again (read: size-contrast ‘illusion’…excuse me while I go sob for a bit in the corner).

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I noticed recently my ClustrMaps finally shows a visitor from Africa. I’ve finally conquered the seven continents…

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Call me superstitious, but I rather enjoyed this…

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My soul died a little this week. For some reason, I found a shock site and became curious “how many shock sites are there out on the interwebs”. My research turned up 43. You are familiar with teh goatse.cx? Well, it gets ‘better’ from there. Check out meatspin, if goatse.cx didn’t destroy your moral fiber. If meatspin didn’t ruin your soul and damn you for eternity, feel free to browse through my research. Keep in mind I have no eye bleach for you, for once you’ve seen something the memory will haunt you forever. The body modification movie was too much for me. I found that out of all of the things I found, someone cutting chunks out of their penis was simply too much for me and stopped watching.

Don’t even bother going to the GNAA corporate homepage. Unless you want to reboot your computer after a terrible visual and auditory assault…

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Alright, I’m off for a bit, that ought to get me off the hook for a couple days…

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnough

Motorists who seem to turn off their brain when switching on their car's satellite navigation system have had a number of spectacular crashes in the past year…

Hmm…you mean when I don't think about driving, I become more dangerous?

In southern England a 29-year-old woman survived unscathed after misreading her satnav and driving the wrong way on a motorway near Portsmouth at nearly 120 km (75 miles) per hour, according to a local newspaper.

When stopped after 22 km of dodging oncoming traffic, she told police she had only followed the satnav orders.

I can understand how difficult it is driving in a new location,I wasn't having fun driving around JFK on Long Island, let me tell you that…so many god damn roads running side by side, exits, on ramps, jesus what a crazy place.  I was thinking a satnav would make it easier…which it might, as long as I don't make the mistake of resting soley on its decision making powers…

http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/12/where_the_sidewalk_ends.php

There are no white lane dividers or sidewalks. Instead, rough-hewn granite columns distinguish places for pedestrians and places for cars. "The idea of this street is that it's designed like a public square but it's open to traffic," said Ellen Vanderslice, a project manager for the Portland Department of Transportation.

Ok, technically this isn't about roundabouts, but it is about having people think and take personal responsibilities for their actions in a traffic/pedestrian paradigm (pronounced 'para-dig-em' muhahaha).

On a side note, this is Portland, Oregon so everyone involved is probably high on Marijuana and making crystal meth in their basement.  BTW, I read about making crystal meth a few days ago and its is entirely do-able by anyone who probably isn't currently high on the stuff.  And, I read that the 'crystal meth crisis' or whatever it is called is very much overblown by those wishing to push the 'War on Drugs' down scared voters throats.  FWIW, I've only known two people in my life who I knew had done/tried crystal meth, and I've known/met/done drugs with a very eclectic group of people in my life.   And I've known a very eclectic group of people in my life.  And I recently read that DuPont and Kimberly Clark are responsible for the current Marijuana prohibition.