you win at the stoopid

13% of Americans are unfathomably ignorant:

Thirteen percent of Americans have never heard of global warming even though their country is the world's top source of greenhouse gases, a 46-country survey showed on Monday.

religious objections

I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.

I'm going to break down the story linked above because it is so totally fucked up I feel a need to make the time-line of events clear so the slow ones get it too:

1) 21-year old woman gets dragged behind a building while walking to her car late at night and is raped.

2) Raped woman calls police.

3) Police pick her up and begin investigating the rape.

4) Police discover rape victim failed to pay restitution on a juvenile arrest and thus has an outstanding warrant.

5) Police stop investigating the rape, arrest the rape victim, and take her to jail where she stays imprisoned for several days.

6) Jail staff deny rape victim access to emergency birth control given to her by a doctor citing "religious objections".

WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF COUNTRY DO WE LIVE IN?!?!?

UPDATE: It turns out the arrest warrant was a "paperwork error":

It was from an arrest when the woman was a juvenile and she was accused of not paying restitution. The woman says she was not aware there was a warrant out for her, and her attorney says it appears to be a paperwork error.

you're a rock 'n roll suicide...

From back when rock stars still got coked up for their art instead of just for recreation.

the screen is us and we're teevee

I love the BBC, but sometimes they come up with some really fucking stupid ideas!

the scientific method

I often wonder if people really are rational or if they just go through the motions of rationality because they haven't encountered something new and unique which challenges their view of the world. Scientists have shown they can fairly easily get anyone to believe completely irrational things.

The real issue is that very few people truly embrace rationalism. They may believe in things like the scientific method abstractly, they may be skeptical about the existence of UFOs and ghosts and all of that, but they aren't skeptical about their religious beliefs. They've never completely applied rational thinking to themselves. So they get left with this huge part of their mind that is still willing to accept "miracles". When scientists subject them to experiments designed to trick them into believing something wholly irrational is going on, such as that their thoughts have influence on the game playing ability of a second person, they fail to examine the experience in any rational way. They aren't truly a rational person, they are a religious person and so there is always that part of them willing to believe in magic. Provide them with "evidence" and rather than examine that evidence and consider it in a rational way, they instead slot it into their existing system of magical thinking.

compulsive liars

Why is the US military incapable of telling the truth?

"Contrary to public statements by the U.S. military, four U.S. soldiers did not die repelling a sneak attack at the governor’s office in the Shiite holy city of Karbala last week."

There is a huge difference between dying as you defend a governor and being kidnapped and executed 25 miles away. It's not like they just got the facts a little bit wrong, they got them completely wrong. Are they even capable of telling the truth?

building a better death squad

We like our violence virtualized so this video is just too hot for American teevee:



Anyone care to place bets on how many days later the bodies of these men were found dumped on the streets of Baghdad with the tell-tale signs of torture and execution?

entartete Kunst

It's a bit disturbing how Christian activists can't handle a movie being released which has a child-rape scene. It must be pornography, because no real art would ever show such a thing and so it must not be released. Fuck censorship.

pwned!!!

Dick Cheney is a dick.

Barrack Obama is so brown (3)

Fox News has become a parody of itself.

Did you hear that Barrack Obama is also BLACK? And his middle name is HUSSEIN. And Obama is only ONE letter away from Osama.

punk rock cave man

Richard Dawkins continues his brutal public clubbing of god's corpse. He's like an atheist Mike Tyson, biting the metaphorical ears off all who dare challenge him.

bloody petrol

I don't understand how it is that oil prices have crashed yet gas prices are still just as high as they've been since before the drop. Gas prices have even gone up in many places. For some reason it seems that it's only Southerners who get cheaper gas. Oil prices drop, gas prices in the South drop, gas prices everywhere else are stagnant. It doesn't make sense.

crackers need to get over their little dicks

What is it with Republicans?

There were furious denunciations in the General Assembly after a Virginia legislator stated that black people "should get over" slavery.

...

In the same interview about whether the state should apologize to the descendants of slaves, Hargrove wondered aloud whether Jews should "apologize for killing Christ."

ninjas vs. robbers

In case you had forgotten that we live in a crazy scifi novel:

A samurai sword wielding vigilante has come to the rescue of two Police officers when they were attacked by an armed gang in South Shields, England.

The world is highly unpredictable. You may find yourself in the middle of a melee in which a motherfucking ninja saves your ass. It's happened.

Found via the weird hunters of BoingBoing.

the maverick

John McCain is such a dirty fucking whore for power

hell is other people

Sometimes I wonder if some subset of the population inherently desires totalitarianism and thus feels obligated to take part in the panopticon.

barrel of a gun

One of Depeche Mode's best songs:

Friday random fact

Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after the death of Galileo. He holds the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge University, a post formerly held by Isaac Newton. He was expected to die before the age of 25 when initially diagnosed with ALS. In addition to being one of the greatest physicists in history he is also a skilled gansta rapper.

I'm changing the climate

Stupid people rule the world:

"Condoms don't belong in school, and neither does Al Gore. He's not a schoolteacher," said Frosty Hardison, a parent of seven who also said that he believes the Earth is 14,000 years old. "The information that's being presented is a very cockeyed view of what the truth is. ... The Bible says that in the end times everything will burn up, but that perspective isn't in the DVD."

According to Pastafarianism the true cause of global warming is a lack of pirates.
I propose that that in addition to showing an Inconvenient Truth and allowing Frosty to explain to the kids how we're all the product of 14,000 years of incest between the descendants of Adam and Eve, the Federal Way school district must allow some pirates to explain their side of the story.

fuck escalation, put our lazy troops to work!

The warmongers at National Review think our soldiers are lazy:

Note that an increase in embeds doesn’t necessarily require an increase in overall troop strength. We’ve got lots of soldiers sitting on megabases all over Iraq. They should be out and about, some of them embedded, others just moving around, tracking the terrorists, hunting them down. I don’t know how many guys and gals are sitting in air-conditioned quarters and drinking designer coffee, but it’s a substantial number. Enough of that.

I wonder how many chickenhawks at the National Review sit in air-conditioned offices all day drinking designer coffee? I bet it's a higher percentage than soldiers in Iraq. Here is my recommendation: Shut the fuck up and put your ass on the line. If you support this war then go fight it yourself. What a bunch of fucking pricks.

Big Brother, eh?

I don't know what to make of this, it's weird:

Canadian coins containing tiny transmitters have mysteriously turned up in the pockets of at least three American contractors who visited Canada, says a branch of the U.S. Department of Defence.

Security experts believe the miniature devices could be used to track the movements of defence industry personnel dealing in sensitive military technology.

This seems like a pretty stupid way to track people. Unless there has been some major breakthrough in technology that I missed, a transmitter small enough to be hidden in a coin isn't going to have a great range. Combine that with the fact that Americans who have Canadian coins after visiting Canada tend to not carry it around with them, and you have a really poor attempt at spying.

get 'er done

It's nice to see Democrats actually living up to their promises:

The Democratic-controlled House voted Wednesday to increase the federal minimum wage to $7.25 an hour, bringing America's lowest-paid workers a crucial step closer to their first raise in a decade.

I still can't figure out why the minimum wage isn't pegged to inflation...

habeus corpus, bitch!

found via BoingBoing


UPDATE: From the comments,

David said...

To find out more and to get involved check out:

projecthamad.org

the video is available there as well

Why does Sen. Kennedy hate America?

Fox News asks the hard-hitting questions.

Here is something I don't understand: Why do Democrats bother going on Fox News? They've proven time and again that they are a bunch of lying partisan hacks. They routinely demonize Democrats as anti-American terrorist-lovers. Fuck that shit. The people who love Fox News and think it is genuinely "fair and balanced" will never vote for a Democrat who isn't Zell Miller or Joe Lieberman. Why waste your time? Boycott that shit.

fuck civility

MSNBC are dirty whores. They apparently have some relationship with a website called hotsoup.com and are letting the "editor-in-chief" of that site publish PR as "news" on the MSNBC website.

It's funny how he pretends to be uninvolved in his stupid PR piece:

Inspired by the life and death of Gerald Ford, a group of online community activists is urging members of Congress to pledge their allegiance to a more bipartisan and civil brand of politics.

It's your own website you dumbfuck. You are the "editor-in-chief". I'm the editor-in-chief around here and I'm urging members of congress to wipe their asses with your stupid pledge. Fuck bipartisanship. Bipartisanship is doubletalk for "do whatever the fuck I say". The GOP taught me that after Bush won. We've heard JACK SHIT about bipartisanship until now that the Democrats are back on top in congress. Guess what? It's payback time, bitches. Stop whining and suck it up.

Also, Gerald Ford was a worthless president. What did he ever do that was worthwhile? His pardon of Nixon didn't "heal the partisan rift", it pissed everyone off. Look at what happened to his poll numbers after the pardon. The only people happy about the pardon were the sycophants in DC. Everyone else hates that motherfucker and is pissed he let Nixon off.

britpop

Some later Suede when they were a little more glam:



I tried to find Elephant Man since it's a similar but better song (plus it's funny), YouTube failed me though.

I hate our troops

Because I hate our troops and want them to die and/or get horrifically injured in greater numbers, I support the escalation. Er, "surge"...

Do they really think ~15,000 more troops in Baghdad will do jack shit?! This is so obviously bullshit rammed down the throat of the Joint Chiefs by the Whitehouse. Bush wants to punt responsibility for fixing the Debacle in Iraqle down the line. It doesn't matter that it's not a "strategy for victory" or whatever doubletalk is en vogue at the moment, or that it will only lead to more dead and injured people. What a shit.

bleh

blogger is all fucked up. must be the insane buzz being generated by the new Apple iPhone. I'm not very impressed. It's cool and all, but it's not THAT cool. The biggest issue is the Cingular lock-in. I've got nothing but hate for all cell phone companies, but Cingular is now part of AT&T and AT&T are the evilest motherfuckers on earth. Or at least, in the telecom sector. The good thing though is that the iPhone has 802.11 built-in (aka wifi) - which means VOIP. In the long-term that's where it will be at. Roll out enough wifi and then run VOIP over it...

socialism?

Onward, Glorious Bolivarian Revolution!

Say what you will, Hugo has done a lot to improve the lives of the poor. Too bad it will all be undone when he is no longer in power. Yes, I know he isn't perfect so shut the fuck up about it.

fair use

Listen carefully to what these ABC/Disney employees are saying. Now, I can't say "fuck" on the radio, even if I'm quoting Dick Cheney. It's OK to call for the torture and murder of various people though. The makes no sense at all. What's even more wack? Disney is totally OK with this. Disney supports anti-American hate speech.

never trust a priest

If they aren't trying to play with your cock it's probably because they are ratting you out to the local Gestapo.

god is a terrorist

Pat Robertson says god wants to kill some Americans:

``I'm not necessarily saying it's going to be nuclear,'' he said during his news-and-talk television show ``The 700 Club'' on the Christian Broadcasting Network. ``The Lord didn't say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something like that.''

Robertson said God told him during a recent prayer retreat that major cities and possibly millions of people will be affected by the attack, which should take place sometime after September.

It's funny how god always says what people want to hear.

snuff films (redux)

As per my prediction, here is leaked video of Saddam Hussein being murdered:



Besides the alleged taunting that went on (one of the executioners allegedly said something about Moqtada al-Sadr ruling Iraq now to Saddam) and the seemingly gleeful audience, it looked like a fairly well done hanging. They got his neck to snap in the initial drop, that's really the key element.