small flowers crack concrete

the shape of things to come

2008-05-28T16:45:00.001-04:00

Watch your back Barack

2008-05-14T18:35:00.002-04:00

Dear Barack Obama,

The Secret Service agents all around you probably call you a nigger behind your back. Their bosses certainly do.

America really fucking sucks

2008-05-14T15:05:00.003-04:00

I don't know what else to say about this except that it's seriously fucked up to go around loading up people on anti-psychotic drugs as a form of control.

silencio

2008-04-24T11:57:00.003-04:00

A couple of days ago the New York Times exposed a large propaganda operation run out of the Pentagon which targets the domestic media market. Normally that sort of thing is illegal in a democracy, and supposedly is illegal in the US. And in case a giant illegal domestic propaganda infrastructure wasn't fucked up enough, their pet propagandists are a bunch of war profiteers:

Those business relationships are hardly ever disclosed to the viewers, and sometimes not even to the networks themselves. But collectively, the men on the plane and several dozen other military analysts represent more than 150 military contractors either as lobbyists, senior executives, board members or consultants. The companies include defense heavyweights, but also scores of smaller companies, all part of a vast assemblage of contractors scrambling for hundreds of billions in military business generated by the administration’s war on terror. It is a furious competition, one in which inside information and easy access to senior officials are highly prized.

Strangely, since the New York Times published this a few days ago it has gone absolutely nowhere. No other major news outlet has taken it up or given it much more than a brief mention as far as I can tell. An illegal domestic propaganda operation run by the Pentagon and a bunch of war profiteers is not "front page" news. No political talk show has covered it as a subject of discussion that I have been able to find. It's quickly on its way down the memory hole.

What the fuck?

support the troops committing suicide

2008-04-23T18:42:00.001-04:00

12,000 soldiers a year try to kill themselves. Too bad the VA got busted trying to cover it up.

stuff of life

2008-04-23T00:15:00.001-04:00

and justice for all

2008-04-14T23:18:00.001-04:00

“I was pulled over just about every time I left Miss Ann’s house,” Hanks says. “They’d ask me, ‘Why are you hanging out with those niggers, those drug dealers?’

fuck the south

the silent sum of a businessman

2008-04-10T14:02:00.001-04:00

that monkey died for my grin

2008-03-28T17:43:00.000-04:00

anti-capitalist propaganda

2008-03-21T16:10:00.000-04:00

machine gun

2008-03-20T00:56:00.000-04:00

holy warriors

2008-03-05T23:31:00.001-05:00

I'm in your militaries killing your god.

burn the witch!

2008-02-22T12:59:00.001-05:00

Our good friends in Saudi Arabia seem to get off on executing women.

fuck the police

2008-02-13T15:59:00.002-05:00

What are you gonna be when you grow up?

COP KILLER!

fuck the cripples

2008-02-13T15:27:00.000-05:00

with friends like these...

2008-02-07T13:53:00.000-05:00

Unclean American bitches think they can sit in a Starbucks and use teh interwebs? Stone them to death!

Nuke England!

2008-02-07T13:51:00.001-05:00

Fucking Brits have restarted their submarine-based nuclear weapons program. Can a US invasion be far behind?

The New America

2008-01-25T12:34:00.000-05:00

"The burden of proof is on the individual to show they're legally entitled to be in the United States"

Chinga la migra!

American family values

2008-01-24T23:09:00.001-05:00

A note to all your Brits, please don't bring your children to America if you don't want them traumatized by our government.

a declaration of war against Scientology

2008-01-24T16:16:00.000-05:00

Japan murders whales and kidnaps anti-whaling activists

2008-01-17T22:09:00.001-05:00

Dear, Japan,
Fuck you.

Now please go back to making fucked up game shows.

baby dragons

2008-01-17T16:09:00.000-05:00

The Afghanification of Iraq is progressing nicely.

Japanese teevee

2008-01-11T17:09:00.000-05:00

The Bible, interpreted literally

2008-01-09T15:15:00.000-05:00

"And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away."

Bruce Sterling knows what's up

2008-01-04T10:58:00.001-05:00

Once a year Bruce Sterling does this "State of the World" discussion at the WELL (for you young ones, that's a sort of social networking/forum website from the early days of the interwebs, it's about as oldschool as things get on the interwebs). This year's has started, Bruce is in top form:

This is a rather doomy conversation... it has to be, because that definitely suits the period, it reflects the facts on the ground... but one of the ways to escape a sense of learned-helplessness is to postulate the opposite.

Like: imagine a world in which Bush was one of America's greatest presidents. He was still Bush, believing everything he believes, but he was a statesman whose vision had overwhelmed his critics.

For instance: Imagine that Iraq had been brimming over with nerve gas, secret missiles and even some homemade nuclear devices. Every grim thing that noted RAND futurist Donald Rumsfeld (remember him?)belived about the Iraq situation was keenly prescient and accurate. So a pre-emptive invasion was completely justified; even brilliant.

We'd still be in Iraq right now. EVERYBODY would be in Iraq right now. The Coalition of the Willing would probably be in Iran, too, and aiming for Pakistan. There would be a military draft, and a world war of sorts, but what other choice would we have? Bush would be a military hero who had saved us from a nuclear Pearl Harbor.

Imagine that the destruction of the middle class, the K Street strategy and crazy income disparities had led to a brilliantly solid American economy. It was Republican, yet technically innovative, with a sound dollar, a government surplus, Chinese-style ten percent GDP rates, and stock market boom conservatively based on radically improved productivity and genuine prosperity... Bushnomics would rule the
world.

Imagine that the Christian Right set America's social policies, and that they were Christian ladies and gentlemen. Imagine that they had so much moral authority through their good works and spiritual power that one felt ashamed in combatting them. They were not demagogic Elmer Gantrys who bashed gays, ambushed women and ruined the nation... instead, wherever their kindly shadow fell, the hungry were fed and housed, sinners were rehabilitated and made active members of the community, drug abuse was abandoned in favor of prayer, Martin Luther King's southern baptist dream vision was destroying the scourge of racism from sea to shining sea... The Culture War would be all over; the USA would be a theocratic state.

But none of that happened. Instead, we have what we have. And the people who voted for that -- Joe and Jane NASCAR, with their variable-rate mortgages and their cousin in the Army -- man are they ever gonna catch it in the neck. The closet is full of skeletons, and that's bad, but the skeletons are there for good reasons; they're all
skeletons of rotten policies that died horribly and deserved to die.

I know, that's a huge quote and this is now the longest post ever. Bruce is awesome though and that quote is really funny.

new portishead

2007-12-31T15:12:00.000-05:00

10 years and they are finally putting out another album.

Lakota liberation

2007-12-20T16:10:00.000-05:00

The Lakota have withdrawn from all treaties with the US Government and declared themselves an independent sovereign nation. Can't say I blame them, it's not like the US government has ever adhered to the treaties. If you really hate taxes but can't afford to move to a Middle Eastern or Caribbean tax haven, you can now renounce your US citizenship and move to Lakota territory!

worst campaign video ever

2007-12-13T12:14:00.000-05:00

This is bad on SO many levels, it's insane. Besides the horrible singing by a bunch of ugly Young Republicans, half the shit doesn't even make sense (two Udalls? wtf?), the parts that do make sense are bullshit (How has 7 years of GOP rule made the Democrats responsible for $4 a gallon gas?), and the rest of it is really just not funny. Whoever came up with the idea for this video should be waterboarded because this shit is terrifyingly bad.

The War on Christmas

2007-12-12T16:01:00.000-05:00

Last Christmas most people had a hard time finding Christmas cards that indicated in any way that Christmas commemorated Someone's Birth. Easter they will have the same difficulty in finding Easter cards that contain any suggestion that Easter commemorates a certain event. There will be rabbits and eggs and spring flowers, but a hint of the Resurrection will be hard to find. Now, all this begins with the designers of the cards.

- Henry Ford, from "The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem"

eat me, drink me

2007-12-12T11:23:00.000-05:00

"That's when two guys stood up and showed us their Jesus tattoos," she said. "They started yelling at us and telling us we have no savior. I started to yell back when one of them spat in my face," Krischanvich said. "I didn't let it bother me, and I told him, 'Jesus turned the other cheek,' and that is when the fight started."

Republican Jesus doesn't turn the other cheek, he bitchslaps faggots, kikes, and ragheads. Learn your place untermensch.

Can you be gang-raped by a corporation?

2007-12-11T11:26:00.000-05:00

It sure looks like it. If I were The Decider I would of declared Haliburton a terrorist organization, used a Predator to take out their next board meeting, and then nationalized the entire fucking company after they got busted knowingly providing rotten food to our troops, or contaminated water, or any other number of terrible things that have done.

I support the Columbine killers

2007-12-05T11:01:00.000-05:00

They killed irony, sarcasm, and free speech.
"Your freedom is not free of dumb".

the past and future

2007-12-03T17:28:00.000-05:00

Iconic, and yet the 1989 uprising failed. By most accounts the unknown man in this video was captured, put on trial, and executed shortly afterwards.

Hosni Mubarak sucks

2007-11-30T11:00:00.000-05:00

YouTube is complicit in torture? I am too sleepy to snark effectively, but needless to say our friends in Egypt are not the nicest bunch.

police states

2007-11-27T17:53:00.000-05:00

this is what democracy looks like?

Popeye

2007-11-19T11:02:00.000-05:00

Japanese whale hunters are lucky the ELF doesn't have a navy.

raised to be lowered

2007-11-16T12:20:00.000-05:00

Americans hate America

2007-11-01T15:47:00.000-05:00

Most Americans think the government is shit, the economy sucks, and we are all doomed.

Iraqi military training

2007-10-31T17:22:00.000-05:00

"As the Iraqis stand up, we will stand down"

We are never leaving Iraq.

shout out to all you .mil and .gov types

2007-10-25T11:39:00.000-04:00

It seems those of you from .gov and .mil search disproportionately for three things I've mentioned here:

1) Britney Spears cunt. I guess the government has a strong interest in finding out what is up with Britney Spears' pussy. Is it shaved? Has she flashed it recently? I don't know and don't care, but you guys do.

2) Fuck the military. I used this phrase once in a post about the military arresting a soldier because her daughter was being abused and she had to go rescue her but they wouldn't give her leave so they tried to charge her with desertion. Pretty fucked up, but that's the military.

3) Terrorist porn. Don't ask me where I have mentioned terrorist porn, it's in there somewhere I guess. I don't really want to know why you guys are searching for terrorist porn, but if someone could make a porno of Britney Spears getting fucked by a terrorist it would be huge with you guys.

blood on my hands

2007-10-23T12:27:00.000-04:00

quick, unplug the internets!

2007-10-17T22:51:00.000-04:00

"So I've told people that, if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon"

Dear Iran, please do not click on this link. Thank you.

we love hate. we hate love.

2007-10-10T14:38:00.000-04:00

The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but, on the contrary, that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge-hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.

deus ex machina

2007-10-08T11:52:00.000-04:00

Hook me up to the god machine.

fuck the troops

2007-10-05T16:49:00.000-04:00

Republicans shaft the longest serving ground troops in Iraq. I guess they don't like them to get an education, it might make it easier for them to figure out that the Republicans and the military leadership don't give a shit about them.

nuke Tehran

2007-10-02T17:09:00.000-04:00

Freaky motherfuckers with bad fashion sense got nothing but hate for "all Iranians", too bad they run the show in the Pentagon.

can we stop

2007-09-26T01:15:00.001-04:00

Osama bin Laden tells it like it is

2007-09-07T16:43:00.000-04:00

It's pretty sad when a terrorist leader can give a more articulate speech than the President of the United State (are you at OPEC or APEC shithead?). Assuming this is really Osama and not some lame attempt at psyops, which is certainly possible...

try to resist

2007-09-04T16:56:00.000-04:00

the silent sum of a businessman

2007-08-24T16:41:00.000-04:00

FU

2007-08-23T17:40:00.000-04:00

Circa Mid-2003 - Tom Friendman, billionaire propagandist and total asshat:

Vladimir Putin can kick your ass

2007-08-23T11:19:00.000-04:00

In a death match between all the various heads of state, Putin would come out on top.

provocative

2007-08-22T18:22:00.000-04:00

Is anyone surprised that the police like to start riots?

UPDATE: Canada totally fails at fascism.

truth is man-made

2007-08-22T12:28:00.000-04:00

ill literate

2007-08-22T10:52:00.000-04:00

More than 25% of Americans did not read a single book last year. Not even Harry Potter. Of the Americans who did read a book religious books were the most popular, and people in the South read the least:

Those likeliest to read religious books included older and married women, lower earners, minorities, lesser educated people, Southerners, rural residents, Republicans and conservatives.

In other words, the South sucks. But really, who is surprised by that? Most of it is like a Third-World country full of religious fanatics got stuck inside America.

Stephen Baldwin is crazy as fuck!

2007-08-21T11:01:00.000-04:00

And The Evildoers better watch out because he is going on a Military Crusade in Iraq.

the mechanical heart

2007-08-13T15:44:00.000-04:00

this broken machine

2007-08-10T12:04:00.000-04:00

so long, and thanks for nothing

2007-08-08T12:51:00.000-04:00

Yangtze river dolphin, RIP:

After more than 20 million years on the planet, the Yangtze river dolphin is today officially declared extinct, the first species of cetacean (whale, dolphin or porpoise) to be driven from this planet by human activity.

it's evolution, baby!

2007-08-07T13:59:00.000-04:00

best music video EVER.

Republicans fear darkie

2007-08-07T00:17:00.000-04:00

So cared of big black men they're willing to pay $20 to give 'em head!

that monkey died for my grin

2007-07-31T12:03:00.000-04:00

"and then the last one died..."

2007-07-26T12:30:00.000-04:00

Have I mentioned my support for a war on motherfuckers who hunt endangered species?

Odds are that the person who will murder the very last mountain gorilla is alive today. Maybe it is you? There are less than 700 left, it shouldn't take you more than a couple of years to kill them all. Make sure you post video of the last one dying on YouTube, I don't think many people have witnessed an actual extinction as it happened.

the screen is us and we're tv

2007-07-25T11:23:00.000-04:00

We can slice the ugly off of you but not out of you:

I accidentally watched part of one of these shows recently, it featured a couple in their 20's. The girl had her labia customized, the guy had ball sack shrunk. They said they were embarrassed to be naked in the light, but now they can fuck all day without blushing. The final scene was them sitting on a boat discussing these facts with their parents. The girl commented to her dad that her boyfriends nuts smack her in a different spot now that they don't hang so low. Her mom suggested that her dad get the procedure done himself. And so on. O, depraved new world that has such people in it!

this is what democracy looks like

2007-07-23T18:27:00.000-04:00

Dead people are so funny:

We heard a few reports, in one case corroborated by photographs, that some soldiers had so lost their moral compass that they'd mocked or desecrated Iraqi corpses. One photo, among dozens turned over to The Nation during the investigation, shows an American soldier acting as if he is about to eat the spilled brains of a dead Iraqi man with his brown plastic Army-issue spoon.

"Take a picture of me and this motherfucker," a soldier who had been in Sergeant Mejía's squad said as he put his arm around the corpse. Sergeant Mejía recalls that the shroud covering the body fell away, revealing that the young man was wearing only his pants. There was a bullet hole in his chest.

"Damn, they really fucked you up, didn't they?" the soldier laughed.

The scene, Sergeant Mejía said, was witnessed by the dead man's brothers and cousins.

Gee, I wonder why they hate our freedom? I wonder how much less fucked up Iraq would be today if so many American soldiers weren't sick assholes. Certainly the insurgency wouldn't be so popular. After seeing your brother gunned down and then his killers playing with his body what would you do? Laugh along or get a gun?

Hillary Clinton hates America

2007-07-19T16:11:00.000-04:00

Pentagon calls Hillary a traitor. To paraphrase the DOD: "You'll ask what I want, when I want, so shut the fuck up bitch!"

Florida...

2007-07-19T14:22:00.000-04:00

Where armed gangs of children force mothers to perform oral sex on their sons before raping them.

wankers

2007-07-19T14:14:00.001-04:00

Bunch of potheads take over the British government and now they want to impose stiffer penalties on potheads. Irony got the munchies and choked to death on bangers and mash.

that's how I roll...

2007-07-19T14:06:00.000-04:00

It's always funny when rich people decide to build a secret underground lair.
I'm more from the James Bond supervillain school of having a mixed-use facility (debauchery AND world domination), but I can still respect a purely recreational lair dedicated exclusively to sex and drugs.

Solomon's gold

2007-07-13T19:33:00.000-04:00

A microcosm of the world.

weed for war

2007-07-13T17:15:00.000-04:00

Did you know that people who grow weed are terrorists?

a drug against war

2007-07-13T16:17:00.000-04:00

Republicans are scared of darkie

2007-07-13T12:16:00.001-04:00

What happens when the NAACP invites all the Republican presidential candidates to a debate?

Embarrassing things happen.

war animals

2007-07-12T16:04:00.000-04:00

In Iran someone has got squirrels kitted out with spy gear.

In Iraq the British have released man eating badgers.

It's a mad world.

Senator's wife cuts his dick off

2007-07-10T16:15:00.000-04:00

Republican family values:

"I'm a lot more like Lorena Bobbitt than Hillary," she said. "If he does something like that, I'm walking away with one thing, and it's not alimony, trust me."

I don't think she has done it yet, but it just came out that he was cheating on her with a prostitute so it's only a matter of time before she cuts his dick off.

smoke for your health

2007-07-10T11:23:00.000-04:00

Cigarettes prevent Parkinson's disease. WTF?

someone torture this guy already!

2007-07-10T11:17:00.000-04:00

Gonzales is perpetually unable to tell the truth. Clearly he just needs a bit of the old "enhanced interrogation." I'm sure we could get Dick Cheney to hook some electrodes up to Alberto's balls...

Republican Justice

2007-07-02T18:27:00.000-04:00

Any man who goes by the name "Scooter" probably won't survive long in prison, so perhaps Bush wanted to save Scooter Libby's life.

More likely is Bush didn't want Scooter to talk.

against all empires

2007-06-27T22:25:00.000-04:00

People want a world without superpowers.

pigs choking kids

2007-06-26T18:53:00.000-04:00

they grow them different there

2007-06-25T14:05:00.000-04:00

France elects a "conservative" and his top foreign policy priority is ending the genocide in Darfur. It's pretty sad when another country has conservatives who are more kick ass than our "liberals".

support the troops

2007-06-21T02:21:00.001-04:00

Why is our government so fucking cruel? Yeah, she's an illegal immigrant. But god fucking DAMN - her husband is MIA in Iraq. He's probably already been tortured and decapitated for some fucked up snuff film propaganda. What kind of sick assholes would then deport the poor bastards wife?

I wish Osama was my travel agent

2007-06-21T02:15:00.000-04:00

After 9/11 it seems like Osama bin Laden was the only motherfucker around who could charter a plane. WHAT THE FUCK.
Seriously, what the hell is going on here? Osama bin Laden can charter planes to fly his family out of the US with special treatment from the feds while the rest of America is stranded. What the hell is wrong with the FBI?

evil librarians!

2007-06-20T17:56:00.000-04:00

They're trying to turn our children into witches!!!

pigs

2007-06-19T14:25:00.000-04:00

Here is a well-written account of an unfortunate encounter with thugs in an airport:

As I lay still on the pavement, Officer Wingate walked over to my glasses and smashed them into the ground with his boot. I was handcuffed, body searched and baggage searched.

Has anyone ever had a positive encounter with security at an airport? It seems like they are always rude power-tripping bastards.

Scalia thinks 24 is a documentary

2007-06-19T13:46:00.000-04:00

Is it any wonder our Supreme Court makes such fucked up decisions?

destruction may be immanent

2007-06-18T12:24:00.000-04:00

death to the pornographers!

2007-06-14T00:47:00.000-04:00

If I worked for the CIA I would be putting together a porn production company right about now...

children of the gulag

2007-06-14T00:14:00.001-04:00

Thanks to Grant for pointing out this Guardian article from 2003:

The US military has admitted that children aged 16 years and younger are among the detainees being interrogated at its prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

As we now know, the "interrogation" going on then was rather "enhanced". Is there any doubt that the US government has tortured children?

fuck our species

2007-06-12T22:30:00.000-04:00

We need a war on motherfuckers who kill endangered species.

no retards allowed

2007-06-12T22:28:00.001-04:00

If you are a developmentally disabled non-gringo in LA County Jail, NEVER SIGN ANYTHING WITHOUT A LAWYER.

ignorant fucks

2007-06-11T19:19:00.000-04:00

Are you a Republican?
Are you religious?

If the answer to either of the above questions is yes the odds are that you are a total fucking idiot.

a war I could start

2007-06-11T11:28:00.000-04:00

If I were The Commander Guy/The Decider I would give the Rwandan/Congolese rebel groups three days to clear the area, then I would do whatever it took to stop shit like this from happening again.

stains like the blood on your teeth

2007-06-07T11:59:00.000-04:00

disapearances

2007-06-07T10:56:00.000-04:00

That the government can make people disappear without any trace is doubleplus ungood:

"We have families who have not seen their loved ones for years. They've literally disappeared," Mariner told Reuters.

Among the cases detailed in the report is the detention in September 2002 of two children, then aged seven and nine, of confessed September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was later detained and is now held at Guantanamo.

That they can make children disappear without any trace is really fucked up. No doubt the kids spend their days getting waterboarded and their nights sleeping in a cage. Freedom is on the march!

fuck Saudi Arabia too

2007-06-06T13:13:00.000-04:00

They're the same as the fucking Taliban, except they've got oil.

It's Thanksgiving in Iraq!

2007-06-06T11:51:00.001-04:00

Turkey just sent several thousand troops across the border into Iraqi territory.

Two senior security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media, said the raid was limited in scope and that it did not constitute the kind of large incursion that Turkish leaders have been discussing in recent weeks.

That's really reassuring. It's just a little invasion, not a big one, nothing to be alarmed about.

Barrack Obama is so fucking BLACK

2007-06-06T11:45:00.000-04:00

Did you know he is trying to start a race war?

fuck the military

2007-06-06T10:55:00.000-04:00

Why would anyone sign up when all they are going to do is shit all over you? What a sick fucked up organization.

the tortured torturer

2007-06-05T13:25:00.000-04:00

Interesting stuff:

Not long ago in Iraq, he felt "absolute power," he said, over men kept in cages. Lagouranis had forced a grandfather to kneel all night in the cold and bombarded others in metal shipping containers with the tape of the self-help parody "Feel This Book: An Essential Guide to Self-Empowerment, Spiritual Supremacy, and Sexual Satisfaction," by comedians Ben Stiller and Janeane Garofalo. ("They hated it," Lagouranis recalled. "Like, 'Please! Just stop that voice!' ")

If you are a content producer it may be worthwhile to have your lawyer add a "no torture" clause to your copyrights so you can sue assholes like Mr. Lagouranis.