Sat - October 1, 2005
Wed - July 27, 2005
Over and over
I keep wondering whether the existence of
interestingly written rants about how the world is coming to an end, or fascism
is on the march, or the state is growing into a leviathan (as the state
continued to successfully increase its influence) from different time periods
that but for a few details feel like they could be written today is proof of the
nature of the scumbaggery those who seek control are up to.
They're always up to no good. Always have been. They're up to good, too. Make no mistake. But it seems obvious that there's something about the system that filters out those who would hold their own opinions, regardless of how it affected their polling numbers. Could the lobbyists merely be taking advantage of the nature of politics on the national and world level to be about little more than a constant campaign for the next election? An almost understandable temptation to formulate an opinion about something that as a normal citizen you might not even opine about based on the likely well-considered opinion of a friend, contributor, business partner, or all three.
What a couple poorly crafted sentences. But here's some good Nixon bashing. The fact that a great many of his old political civilian turds are back in control shouldn't be forgotten.
They're always up to no good. Always have been. They're up to good, too. Make no mistake. But it seems obvious that there's something about the system that filters out those who would hold their own opinions, regardless of how it affected their polling numbers. Could the lobbyists merely be taking advantage of the nature of politics on the national and world level to be about little more than a constant campaign for the next election? An almost understandable temptation to formulate an opinion about something that as a normal citizen you might not even opine about based on the likely well-considered opinion of a friend, contributor, business partner, or all three.
What a couple poorly crafted sentences. But here's some good Nixon bashing. The fact that a great many of his old political civilian turds are back in control shouldn't be forgotten.
Posted at 10:41 AM
Mon - July 11, 2005
The end says it all
Feds
fear broadband air terror
So let me get this straight. No longer are we concerned that someone could first get an explosive device on a plane. The real concern is whether it can be detonated remotely using a broadband internet connection. Thereby assuming that the individual or group sophisticated enough to concoct such a plan would not have a plan B.
Sure sounds like this could be extended easily to all broadband access. This is madness! Remember you were warned.
The end is of course, the most telling. First off, I agree that it sure would be nice to have a special forces team able to identify an act before it is to happen and 10 seconds later successfully thwarting it. So I can see how the analyst in question thinks it a good idea and a small price to pay for added security to limit the competition for the market of aircraft based broadband services to the biggest and best companies and political contributors.
The giveaways to business bureaucrats by our bureaucrats continues unabated. All for our safety, of course.
So let me get this straight. No longer are we concerned that someone could first get an explosive device on a plane. The real concern is whether it can be detonated remotely using a broadband internet connection. Thereby assuming that the individual or group sophisticated enough to concoct such a plan would not have a plan B.
Sure sounds like this could be extended easily to all broadband access. This is madness! Remember you were warned.
The end is of course, the most telling. First off, I agree that it sure would be nice to have a special forces team able to identify an act before it is to happen and 10 seconds later successfully thwarting it. So I can see how the analyst in question thinks it a good idea and a small price to pay for added security to limit the competition for the market of aircraft based broadband services to the biggest and best companies and political contributors.
The giveaways to business bureaucrats by our bureaucrats continues unabated. All for our safety, of course.
Posted at 04:02 PM
Found this funny
I really wish more people would remember that they
thought our government was tiliting fascist during the '90s. This essay only
need to be mildly altered to be just as funny and timely today. It's a reposting of
something that made the rounds of the internet years ago
.
Posted at 10:01 AM
Mon - June 27, 2005
One more
From this Devvy Kidd
woman. I think there's certainly something to harping about the Dem's
past with voter fraud. It's actually my favorite argument about why is happened
in 2000 and again likely in 2004.
Anybody who thinks these scumbags are incapable of it (and I mean that insult in an all-inclusive way across party lines) is again a fool. People try fraud at all levels of voting. From junior high class elections and on up.
Anybody who thinks these scumbags are incapable of it (and I mean that insult in an all-inclusive way across party lines) is again a fool. People try fraud at all levels of voting. From junior high class elections and on up.
Posted at 11:21 AM
Mon - June 13, 2005
All hail King George!
Who needs a stinking
22nd Amendment? Proposed
by a democrat? And of course, supported by that maniac from Wisconsin,
Sensenbrenner.
Go here to see some angry libertarians at the end of their rope. I am like them at a continued loss to understand how we let this shit happen.
Go here to see some angry libertarians at the end of their rope. I am like them at a continued loss to understand how we let this shit happen.
Posted at 10:10 AM
Sat - June 11, 2005
Another summer of this shit????
WARNING!!
FLORIDA IS PRONE TO TROPICAL STORMS AND HURRICANES!! WIND TO COME! RAIN TO FOLLOW!!
WARNING!!
FLORIDA IS PRONE TO TROPICAL STORMS AND HURRICANES!! WIND TO COME! RAIN TO FOLLOW!!
WARNING!!
Posted at 08:52 AM
Isn't this the job of our consumer culture?
Seriously,
isn't it? Or am I paranoid enough to really believe that the same
government that tells us using our own money to drink milk and eat beef might
have also been behind pushing "Leave it to Beaver" style Americana and the power
of blue jeans and "Have It Your Way" McDonald's style options.
Sorry, that made no sense. I think I'm tying it in to my previous post about the media.
Power and control. Power and control. The overwhelming history of mankind.
Sorry, that made no sense. I think I'm tying it in to my previous post about the media.
Power and control. Power and control. The overwhelming history of mankind.
Posted at 08:50 AM
Liberal media
Liberal media, my hairy ass. I think I've ranted
about this before, but here goes one more time. And if you haven't heard about
this Downing
Street memo thing, well it's no surprise. But anyone who is surprised
to learn that the Bushies lied about Iraq had and probably continues to have
their head lodged firmly within the folds of their ass cheeks. And no, I was not
opposed to the invasion. I was opposed to the timing of it and the incredibly
insulting propaganda in its lead up and would have preferred "fighting the
terrorists over there" in Afghanistan, or even better, Saudi Arabia. Getting rid
of him was a good thing. But let's be honest, that offered little justification
to most Americans or rational humans. Once again, we prefer the fantasy and the
lie to the reality. The "neocons" who were "neoliberals" prior to that had this
geopolitical
strategy planned for years.
The more I hear it, the more the "liberal media" thing's complete fallacy bugs me batshit. I can't listen to that particular whining from the likes of Limbaugh and Hannity anymore (they had more to talk about pre-election -- now they're the exact same gossip whores that the celebrity shows are). How long did friggin' Hannity and Fox news babble about that runaway bride chick for christ's sake?! I didn't care about her when she was "kidnapped" -- and might only have been concerned if they found her half eaten by a new Ted Bundy. Bleeding heart TV is good TV. And both sides have hearts that bleed for their specific concerns. We're sucked into their battle for control over us. It should be the other way around.
But liberal media? No way. Corporate media with heavy political influence, absolutely. All those years that the republican wing of the Republicrat party were bitching (which happened to coincide with the democrat wing's control of government and influence over the growing corporate media) were years they could have been spending getting Fox news off the ground instead of moaning about how the NYT or CBS should be more ideologically inclusive.
While there may certainly have been more "liberal" views expressed in the media for some time, the people who bitch about stuff like that are bitching, in my mind, for almost a reverse censorship. Almost begging for government control over the airwaves, which is ironic coming from the "small government" right (who also pretend to be about the power of the markets) that is nothing but and is still pissed about Janet jackson's tit. It is an old bias against a prevalence of views that "seemed" at odds with "the moral majority." Utter crap. The polarization effect has created a vacuum where both sides are offended by any viewpoint that tilts away from what they believe, and even more insidiously, what they believe "we" in their target audience want to hear.
We're supposed to be about providing choice, not being offended when someone actually speaks their mind. The right has joined the left in continuing to push retarded PC-ness down our collective throats, not because they're countering decades of "liberal bias" but because they have more political power now. Exerting that on the culture is the task of the corporate arm of the political media (which btw, I know sounds more nefarious than I actually believe it to be). I still get saddened when we rise up in outrage over some fringe celebrity using the bully pulpit that our culture provides them by trailing them with cameras and microphones and asking their opinions. More common than debating the content of their opinion is arguing over whether they have any right to offer it. Which I find utterly fascinating. We all have the power to vote by changing the channel, not buying the movie, walking past the CD rack, or throwing the paper in the trash.
The common Limbaugh quote that "these people have nothing to offer but hate and Bush bashing." is precisely what he offered during Clinton. And was offered by the "liberals" again as they attacked Bush I and St. Ronnie. Carter certainly didn't get treated too well. Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy. It goes on. And rightfully so, to my mind. There needs to be a way to speak truth to power. But whining about partiality is for morons. I may think my fellow man are stupid lemmings who can be made dangerous because they are susceptible to dumbness spouted by ideological pontificators (whose ranks I ironically strive to join, but fear for the increase to my own self -loathing that would result), but I could care less. At the end of the day, I'll choose my own path. And be happy to know that I considered multiple options to the point of blinding socio-economic paralysis along the way.
The more I hear it, the more the "liberal media" thing's complete fallacy bugs me batshit. I can't listen to that particular whining from the likes of Limbaugh and Hannity anymore (they had more to talk about pre-election -- now they're the exact same gossip whores that the celebrity shows are). How long did friggin' Hannity and Fox news babble about that runaway bride chick for christ's sake?! I didn't care about her when she was "kidnapped" -- and might only have been concerned if they found her half eaten by a new Ted Bundy. Bleeding heart TV is good TV. And both sides have hearts that bleed for their specific concerns. We're sucked into their battle for control over us. It should be the other way around.
But liberal media? No way. Corporate media with heavy political influence, absolutely. All those years that the republican wing of the Republicrat party were bitching (which happened to coincide with the democrat wing's control of government and influence over the growing corporate media) were years they could have been spending getting Fox news off the ground instead of moaning about how the NYT or CBS should be more ideologically inclusive.
While there may certainly have been more "liberal" views expressed in the media for some time, the people who bitch about stuff like that are bitching, in my mind, for almost a reverse censorship. Almost begging for government control over the airwaves, which is ironic coming from the "small government" right (who also pretend to be about the power of the markets) that is nothing but and is still pissed about Janet jackson's tit. It is an old bias against a prevalence of views that "seemed" at odds with "the moral majority." Utter crap. The polarization effect has created a vacuum where both sides are offended by any viewpoint that tilts away from what they believe, and even more insidiously, what they believe "we" in their target audience want to hear.
We're supposed to be about providing choice, not being offended when someone actually speaks their mind. The right has joined the left in continuing to push retarded PC-ness down our collective throats, not because they're countering decades of "liberal bias" but because they have more political power now. Exerting that on the culture is the task of the corporate arm of the political media (which btw, I know sounds more nefarious than I actually believe it to be). I still get saddened when we rise up in outrage over some fringe celebrity using the bully pulpit that our culture provides them by trailing them with cameras and microphones and asking their opinions. More common than debating the content of their opinion is arguing over whether they have any right to offer it. Which I find utterly fascinating. We all have the power to vote by changing the channel, not buying the movie, walking past the CD rack, or throwing the paper in the trash.
The common Limbaugh quote that "these people have nothing to offer but hate and Bush bashing." is precisely what he offered during Clinton. And was offered by the "liberals" again as they attacked Bush I and St. Ronnie. Carter certainly didn't get treated too well. Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy. It goes on. And rightfully so, to my mind. There needs to be a way to speak truth to power. But whining about partiality is for morons. I may think my fellow man are stupid lemmings who can be made dangerous because they are susceptible to dumbness spouted by ideological pontificators (whose ranks I ironically strive to join, but fear for the increase to my own self -loathing that would result), but I could care less. At the end of the day, I'll choose my own path. And be happy to know that I considered multiple options to the point of blinding socio-economic paralysis along the way.
Posted at 08:46 AM
Wed - April 27, 2005
Because we're too dumb
I think that's what
they're saying. That's what I hear when I read excuses about not
having an intent to deceive or assigning blame to clerical errors. Bullshit. The
report on the decrease was touted by the White House recently. So either the
excuse is "we totally fucked up" or "we don't respect your intelligence enough
to trust you with the truth."
Posted at 10:52 AM
No problem with this
Well,
maybe a slight problem. Like the V-chip, I guess this is a decent
idea. And I have yet to focus my ire on Hollywood and it's money-grubbing ways.
I've said it before, I believe everything is derivative. Nowhere is this more
evident than in art. How studio execs can claim that a parent applying a filter
to a DVD is using patent busting technology that the company who makes the
filter should pay a fee for is beyond me. Is using the fast forward button the
same thing? Should remote control manufacturers have to pay a licensing fee? Is
referencing an older movie by mimicking a shot a violation of copyright? Is
using an actor or actress who is widely recognized and plays a similar character
is their films a violation? Come on.
However, legislating the ability for parents to receive products that help them to filter the content their children watch sure seems like some kind of institutionalization of parental laziness. I wasn't allowed to watch R rated movies growing up. Without question. I hold no resentment toward my parents for it. They were consistent. I of course would sneak late night cable views or watched R movies at friends' houses. Maybe if I were born two decades later they'd want to use one of the readily available parental filters, whose technology I would of course be more advanced on and fully capable of overriding. The fact remains that they did their job and applied rules for me and my siblings. They didn't need the government's help to do it. By the time my sister was in her teens, the rules had been weakened, but I'm not too bent out of shape about it and turned out ok. Except for the whole living like a porn-obsessed hermit thing.
However, legislating the ability for parents to receive products that help them to filter the content their children watch sure seems like some kind of institutionalization of parental laziness. I wasn't allowed to watch R rated movies growing up. Without question. I hold no resentment toward my parents for it. They were consistent. I of course would sneak late night cable views or watched R movies at friends' houses. Maybe if I were born two decades later they'd want to use one of the readily available parental filters, whose technology I would of course be more advanced on and fully capable of overriding. The fact remains that they did their job and applied rules for me and my siblings. They didn't need the government's help to do it. By the time my sister was in her teens, the rules had been weakened, but I'm not too bent out of shape about it and turned out ok. Except for the whole living like a porn-obsessed hermit thing.
Posted at 10:48 AM
Mon - April 25, 2005
Tue - April 12, 2005
Here's a good lesson
For
the kids. Everybody loves a rat.
Don't get me wrong. A kid should tell someone if a classmate has a gun. They shouldn't need $100 to do it.
Don't get me wrong. A kid should tell someone if a classmate has a gun. They shouldn't need $100 to do it.
Posted at 07:43 PM
Thu - April 7, 2005
About time
About time somebody actually suggested that Bush's
"town hall" meetings deserve a little scrutiny.
Of course, expecting the other wing of the Republicrat party to do anything is wishful thinking.
All complicit.
Of course, expecting the other wing of the Republicrat party to do anything is wishful thinking.
All complicit.
Posted at 06:15 PM
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