doubled up inside

Republicans want your brain to rot

The only explanation for this is that they want Americans so brain damaged that we keep voting Republican:

The Bush administration said Tuesday it will fight to keep meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease.

The Agriculture Department tests fewer than 1 percent of slaughtered cows for the disease, which can be fatal to humans who eat tainted beef. A beef producer in the western state of Kansas, Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, wants to test all of its cows.

Does it make any kind of sense that they are going to "fight" to stop a company from doing additional testing? We seriously live in a fucking dystopia.

the man who disapeared

At one point the Whitehouse loved to talk about capturing al-Libi and all the great info he was sharing. Then it was revealed that they got the info by having the Egyptian security services brutally torture him. Ever since his torture was revealed it's like he stopped existing. Where the fuck is al-Libi?

I think Dickhead Cheney keeps him in a cage under his bed.

the will to be against

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." -Albert Camus

big exit

an American suicide

So the Democrats capitulated to Bush on the Iraq funding bill. No real benchmarks required. No timetables. Yet another blank check to pay for more useless deaths.

Meanwhile, the sabers continue to rattle through the Middle East. Gas prices continue to climb. Housing prices continue to fall. National debt continues to grow with no end in sight. The trade deficit continues to skyrocket. The climate continues to change. American culture continues its obsession with celebrity and vacuous entertainment. Etc. Etc. Etc...

Some academic who has studied these sorts of things once said something along the lines of " civilizations are never destroyed unless they commit suicide". We've got the bullets in the gun and the barrel in our mouth, we can watch the season finale of American Idol while we pull the trigger.

imperial sticks and wasps

What would Jesus do?

U.S. Navy officials said Iran had not been notified of plans to sail the vessels, which include two aircraft carriers, through the Straits of Hormuz, a narrow channel in international waters off Iran’s coast and a major artery for global oil shipments.

Most U.S. ships pass through the straits at night so as not to attract attention, and rarely move in such large numbers.

A bit of provocation can go a long way.

freedom isn't free

This is an absolutely fascinating case of a man accused of terrorism who has destroyed his own freedom in order to save it:

To convince the Feds of his innocence, Elahi has made his life an open book. Whenever they want, officials can go to his site and see where he is and what he's doing. Indeed, his server logs show hits from the Pentagon, the Secretary of Defense, and the Executive Office of the President, among others.

this dystopia

Death in the hospital:

Parked in the emergency room lobby in a wheelchair after police left, she fell to the floor. She lay on the linoleum, writhing in pain, for 45 minutes, as staffers worked at their desks and numerous patients looked on.

Aside from one patient who briefly checked on her condition, no one helped her. A janitor cleaned the floor around her as if she were a piece of furniture. A closed-circuit camera captured everyone's apparent indifference.

Arriving to find Rodriguez on the floor, her boyfriend unsuccessfully tried to enlist help from the medical staff and county police — even a 911 dispatcher, who balked at sending rescuers to a hospital.

Alerted to the "disturbance" in the lobby, police stepped in — by running Rodriguez's record. They found an outstanding warrant and prepared to take her to jail. She died before she could be put into a squad car.

It's shit like this which makes me seriously consider moving to France.

I have funded The Terrorists

In fact, every single tax payer in the US is technically a criminal now (don't worry, you already were). The problem is that the US government funds al-Hurra, a TV station in Iraq. No biggie, except the people they put in charge don't speak Arabic and so haven't really noticed that the station us tax payers are paying for is broadcasting terrorist messages.

Your blog sucks

I was recently wondering why my blog sucks so bad and that the only people who ever read it come here because I once mentioned Dutch prostate milking (that's some wild stuff!) and of course they quickly leave because I don't meet their prostate milking needs. I asked and the wiseman known as WDF? answered:

Unless you work on something cool, are a celebrity, or are inventing something amazing (games, hardware, medicine, etc) then blogs are a waste of time. The problem with blogs, and myspace falls into this as well, is the people who blog believe that people out there care about what they are thinking... and that simply isn't the case.

No on reads your shitty blog, because no one really cares about what you're thinking. I mean the bottom line is there are like 9000 other blogs just like yours. Sometimes people's friends read their blogs... or family... but marketing to a wide audience is futile... as no one cares.


Harsh but true.

I agree, and yet here I am writing another post. I've come to accept that life is futile, that ultimately anything I do has no real meaning. The slogan of my revolution:
Futility is freedom!

Mars, bitch!

China continues to shoot for the moon:

China plans to launch a lunar orbiter in the second half of 2007, in a first step towards a lunar probe, Xinhua news agency quoted the director of the National Space Administration as saying on Sunday.

It sure would be nice if we could have another "space race".

non-entity

In honor of Trent Reznor's birthday:

I shot JFK

I think it was George Bush Sr. on the grassy knoll:

"This finding means that the bullet fragments from the assassination that match could have come from three or more separate bullets," the researchers said.

"If the assassination fragments are derived from three or more separate bullets, then a second assassin is likely, as the additional bullet would not be attributable to the main suspect, Mr. Oswald."

last night I prayed

I didn't know that the almighty Baby Jeebus answered the prayers of degenerate atheists like me:

God has struck Jerry Falwell down!

"I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen.'"

Amen.

the media elite

When it comes to the big Sunday morning political talk shows it's nothing but crackers as far as the eye can see.

the toe sucker

MORRIS: I think that withdrawal from Iraq — it obviously gives al Qaeda a huge victory. Huge victory. On the other hand, if we stay in Iraq, it gives them the opportunity to kill more Americans, which they really like.

One of the things, though, that I think the antiwar crowd has not considered is that, if we’re putting the Americans right within their arms’ reach, they don’t have to come to Wall Street to kill Americans. They don’t have to knock down the trade center. They can do it around the corner, and convenience is a big factor when you’re a terrorist.

Via ThinkProgress

spying is speech

Verizon wins todays "Evil Fucking Bastards" award. Congrats Verizon!

Not that little old me much matters, but I'm boycotting Verizon (along with AT&T who are also whores for the NSA) and I encourage everyone else on earth to do the same.

math is hard!

Soon only outlaws will have 128-bit integers, except for me because this one is ALL MINE:

19 88 CC 21 D2 8E 81 96 C1 83 1E 68 BB 24 90 79

bring down the government

Worst Canadian ever!

My vote totally goes to Celine Dion.

The Decider

"The question is, who ought to make that decision? The Congress or the commanders? And as you know, my position is clear -- I'm the commander guy."

Kouichi Toyama for Mayor!

This wins as the most awesome campaign speech in history:

09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

when numbers are outlawed, only outlaws will have numbers

...gun in hand