A One-Sided Coin

I ran across this line just now. It's describing the U.S. Democratic Party's seeming unwillingness to take advantage of all of the Republican scandals going on:

"Wouldn't want to upset the Bringer of Pork who makes the Great Herd of Jobs return after the cold winter."

Wow. I never realized it before but it makes total sense:

The Republicans love to talk "fiscal restraint" but anyone with a brain in their head knows they are the Pork Party... they buy their re-elections by pouring money into their local economies. And the Democrats know this. They also know that the Republicans, being a big bunch of greasy, pork-sucking bastards, are criminals and criminals just never know when to say when... it's in their conniving, criminal nature to keep causing more and more shit, until people catch on and toss their evil asses out. Then they vote Democrat. And guess what? The Democrats come in and fix everything... they raise taxes generally to fund all the programs the Republicans gutted, and they *dont'* repeal any of the pork, they make everyone think it was their idea. Win, win.

So why don't they get re-elected all of the time? Because they're into raising taxes, dummy, and Christ knows The Great Unwashed want all of the "oomph!" without any of the "doh!". But more importantly, it's because Demorcats are boring, sniveling wimps and at the end of the day, America is about John Wayne fucking Mao Tse-Tung in the ass, baby!

Plus, while they spend as much, or more, as the Republicans, they don't have the balls to pull all the shit the GOP does to get those payola schemes going and kick-backs rolling in... eventually, all the money dries up and they're not so good at being the bad guys, so you have to get those fucking Republicans back in to start the whole cycle over.

Sigh. Between the U.S., global warming, tsunamis, hurricanes and avian flu pandemics, I can't believe this bloody rock is still spinning!

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Of Thee I Sing!

A quick calculation on some eDonkey statistics has revealed that anywhere from 600K to one million users are, on average, each sharing 146.275 unique computer files at any given moment.

Of those shared files, I guarantee you, 85% is hardcore pornography.

And STILL, I can obtain a copy of "The Broadway Melody" or "THX1138" with relatively little delay.

God Bless America!

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Constitutional Ratification or Bust!

In a truthout article about the Iraq constitution thing, wherein it's spun like some magical process bestowed upon the Iraqis as a gift, instead of the slow-motion-train-wreck-about-to-happen that it is, my favourite line :

The announcement that voters in some provinces voted in inordinately high numbers in favor of the constitution follows concerns, publicly expressed by Shiite leaders before the balloting, that the constitution could fail.

"American" Translation:

"We need an excuse to stay there. Clearly, the Iraqis are barely above gorillas in the natural pecking order, so the next of many constitutional referendums will pave the way for many more referendums to come, where, hopefully, eventually, they'll finally see that our way is the better way. I think we should maybe sit tight for another 3, 10, maybe 25 years or so..."

"The Rest of the World" Translation:

"Of course, it wouldn't make sense that the fucking Shiites and the fucking Kurds would turn out in record numbers to ratify a constitution that would essentially give them total control over their (minority) slave masters from yesteryear, the fucking Sunnis! That's just crazy talk!!"

Pave it over or stop talking shit about it! Either way, I'm bone tired of the fucking Middle East! I can't wait for the fucking oil to run out so they can go back to being over-heated Tibetans!

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Evil Is The Root Of All Money

In an earlier rant, I discussed the media, its failings and its... well, failings. Today I just spotted an advert for an upcoming episode of MSNBC "Countdown". The subject is a discussion of the last 13 terror alerts down U.S.A.-way and how they strangely seemed to always coincide with some political bad-tidings for Our Lord and Saviour, George Dubya.

This is fascinating because it signals yet another "corner being turned" (the Phrase Du Jour). The mainstream, corporate media is uncovering what all of us here in The Outer Limits® have known pretty much since 9/12, that the "terror alerts" were, and are, bullshit. Crowd control. Mass manipulation. Terrorism inflicted by a government onto its own people. That the media is reporting it is a signal that perhaps the long, dark nightmare is almost over.

Nope.

Not it at all.

MSNBC, like all other commercially-owned media agencies, REPORTED the last "terror alert"! What the fuck is up with that? If we know it's bullshit, surely they must know 10 minutes sooner! And then they're putting on an exposé to denounce the dissemination of false information for the bending and shaping of public opinion?! Jeeeezus! It's like rape, except the guy offers to clean up after...

Here's what's happening : the media has clued in to the fact that more than 50% of the U.S. public thinks BushCo is a doublepluscapital-"F"uckup and that many centrist and left-leaning consumers are turning to the Internet and Comedy Central® shows to get "the real story". So they had these focus groups and marketing studies and came to the conclusion that they could go after the kossack crowd by telling them what they want to hear. Doesn't matter if it's true or not, if it changes anything or not, as long as people start cross-posting "so r u gonna watch alert thing?" txtmsgs, viewership will skyrocket.

To put it bluntly : the mainstream media is about to invade the Internet, and I don't mean "ABCnews.com". Let's just say that if I were the slimeball president of a major news organization, I'd have 3 of my top writers posting blog rants on Daily Kos containing very subtle advertising to steer the blogospherinoids my way. Who gives a shit if it's "for" or "against"?... it's all about selling papers, man.

Better yet, just show a promo for a "Dump on Bush" program during a news segment that you know for certain two dozen geeks are digitizing, and it'll race through the 'sphere like lightening ("Hooray! The media is finally on our side!!").

Free advertising.

You gotta hand it to these guys.

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The Forbidden

No-one's saying it, so I just felt I had to.

No. I didn't "have to". I "wanna". So there.

No-one's mentioning how pissed Allah/The Holy Ghost/The Force is at Uncle Sam and His buddies. And the Rest of Us. Really. Look!

Hurricane Katrina, followed immediately by H.R.H. Rita. Whammo! Into the oil-refining heart of (a) the world's biggest polluter; and, (b) the biggest killer of people over in the "Holy" Land. All at once. Pow! Which Holy Land? Christian, Jewish or Muslim? Or Texas? Doan' matter none; it's all the same bloodbath in the sands of time.

But your avenging, monotheistic deity has been watching all you nasty, sinning little monotheists! She/He/It has been watching you very closely indeed!

Now, India and Pakistan...both of whom have been waggling their nuclear appendanges at each other for the last few years: Gotcha! Whoosh! U2!

O.K. So there's a flaw in my hypothesis; India is largely POLYTHEISTIC.....but they've been ACTING like the rest of the world, vis a vis the contrast between everyone's proclaimed cultural and religious background (rooted in peace, love and all that shite, all around the planet) and our behavior "on the ground", as a species. So there. Shiva's pissed as well. And Reverend Moon, too, probably.

Pakistan let the U.S./N.A.T.O. through its borders to womp Afghanistan, an ongoing battle theatre that has anaesthesically dropped out of the collective T.V. brain of the nations.....

So they got it too: rumble, rumble. Someone else is gonna get it next. Soon.

Yup.

We're probably all gonna get it.

Betcha all of the above is how every freakinsh fundamentalist fuckwad without a life has been thinking 'bout the last year....since The Tsunami, and well before. Remember? Last year? The tsunami that fell off the radar screens of The Great White Media Machine a month or two after it happened. Yeah, well...

Hurricanes, tsunamis (Papua New Guinea 1998...remember? No?), earthquakes (Iran 2003...remember? Hmm...), tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes....

The whole world's media has, in its politically correct wisdom, chosen to ignore the fact that (whether or not you do) a significant number of the human herd/horde who populate this planet DO indeed believe that their chosen Entity of Respect is pissed off at everyone, and the media is afraid to admit it. Or has been ordered not to know. I betcha "They" know what's up, but I betcha "They" don't know what the fuck to do about it either. Maybe that's why the world has chosen to erase our memories after two days. Who knows?

Not the buried Guatamalan Mayans. They fell of the radar after a day and a half. Remember?

Last year we could think back in time a year or two; now it's a day or two. Does this have something to do with the exponential increase in hard drive space and processor speed over the last few years?

Anyhow, I betcha at least 20% of the hairless apes on this planet who have access to a radio, T.V. or newspaper of any kind are walking around with the program running in their heads, "...maybethejudgementmaybethejudgementmaybe....". Wonder what that's gonna do when the next Big Event happens, whether it's natural or human in origin, or a blurring of the two. Sorry: we're not very natural at the moment. Or what all the loony Jesus/Allah/Adonai/Vishnu freaks are gonna think and do when THE Big Event happens, as all our wonderful religions and cultures have self-fulfillingly chosen to prophesy. Gonna be trippy, I bet...

Wonder what the commies in Kim Jong Il's Korea think about the weather and destiny; they've got T.V.'s and opinions just like us. I wonder if they believe in Apocalypse Wow! the way the rest of us do, and what that'll do around the negotiation table, vibe-wise...when THE Typhoon hits, followed by THE Great Drought. Just when everyone else is thinkin' about the same thang. Just curious.

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Curiouser and Curiouser

I'm as mystified as you are as to the status of the New Orleans refugees... the last I heard they were getting up Barbara Bush's nose in Houston... what with their poorness and blackness 'n all. They can't still be at the Astrodome since the Astros are in the semi-finals of the World Series.

My response is not exactly about the refugees, but is kinda related. A short, but curious conversation took place at a Thanksgiving dinner party Friday night... a fellow there - we'll call him Bob - was telling us that an associate of his (Bob is one of those worldly types who knows Important People in several countries) offered him a chance to go to New Orleans for five years to work on the reconstruction and could make enough money to retire... Bob would be 43. The conversation went on to talk about the fact it wouldn't be Bob who'd make enough to retire, but the sub-contractors and contractors who would be making the huge money... not to mention the fact that one would have to live in New Orleans (gasp!) for five years.

Bob was kind of sheepish when telling us about this opportunity, and there was something that was Not Quite Right about the conversation itself that picked at my sub conscience during and after the dinner... it wasn't until the next day after watching a just Bittorrented episode of Real Time with Bill Maher that it hit me was WAS wrong: A bunch of foreign nationals - in this case Canadians - can go to New Orleans for five years, make big gobs of delicious American dollars, bring 'em all home to pay off bills, build their dream homes and pad their small business' bank accounts while the citizens of New Orleans continue to wander around with nothing - no home, no job, no money... and no opportunity to declare bankruptcy... just that haunting 'What the fuck' expression on their faces.

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Curious?

I wuz jus' wundrin....

Where are all the "Katrina Refugees"? I know that SOME people have been allowed to go home, but this was a disaster zone that cleaned out an area the size of Great Britain.

So, like, where are the hundreds of thousands of refugees who were in the media two weeks ago? Have they disappeared?

I know that history has disappeared. It's dead. Just watch anything on T.V. or in a newspaper for a week; it'll become a rapidly red-shifting vanishing point within days. Pakistan/India is next.

Kate Moss did coke.

So, again, where are the hundreds of thousands of refugees who were in the media two weeks ago? No-one's saying anything. They've gone.


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Your Friday Sunset - 10/7/05