Hmm, well I suppose that Rand Paul is in favor of allowing public businesses to discriminate. I think that this is probably against Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the Constitution which states that the Federal government has the power to regulate commerce "among the several States," and that discrimination is thus illegitimate for reasons discussed in the Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States case.
Another reason why I think that discrimination is probably wrong is because, let's face it, many businesses serve the public as a whole, like salons, eating establishments, doughnut shops, delicatessens, etc. Disallowing a certain group of people from entering a particular store is going to have a significantly negative effect on the population as a whole. People forget about the whole segregated lunch counter thing and try to play it off like there's a choice to discriminate. It's my belief that this country should not be ridiculous enough to look the other way as people try to form alliances and in-groups based upon something as ridiculous as skin color. We're all equal.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Thursday, May 20, 2010
HuffPost liberals freak out about Rand Paul
Why is this news story such a bombshell that it deserves a huge, all-caps title? Liberals are freaking out and saying Rand Paul's "against" the Civil Rights Act. This must mean that he's in favor of repealing the Act and he's a huge racist, right? Wrong on both counts. I watched the debate he had with Maddow, and every other sentence that came out of his mouth was something about how he is NOT RACIST and believes in the equality of persons regardless of their race, etc. He also said that he would not support getting rid of the Act and that this wouldn't be something on his legislative agenda if he were elected to Senate.
Obviously what people don't understand is that Libertarians are more than a little nutty when it comes to restricting people's liberties and such. Paul probably thinks it's okay to discriminate in some circumstances that are currently not allowed by law. He's not in favor of legislating morality, which is something that I probably agree with to a certain extent. He said that 9 out of 10 sections of the law he absolutely agrees with. Those nine sections concern public discrimination which is a no-brainer for anyone except racists. Paul is not in favor of public discrimination.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
So Reuters ran a story about a company that sells dispersant chemicals being used right now in the Gulf of Mexico. This company is called Nalco Holding Co.
The article reads,
Well isn't that great. While all the animals are dying and millions of gallons of chemicals are being dumped in the Gulf of Mexico to avert a leak that, by the way, is still leaking, these bastards are bathing in the money they just got from selling this shit. I see RECORD PROFITS coming out of this. And it's all at the expense of poor people, so who gives a damn, right?
What a disgrace.
The article reads,
* Shares up 20 cents after the bell
May 17 (Reuters) - Water treatment services firm Nalco Holding Co (NLC.N) said on Monday it will likely have generated about $40 million by the end of this week from the sale of dispersants following the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Well isn't that great. While all the animals are dying and millions of gallons of chemicals are being dumped in the Gulf of Mexico to avert a leak that, by the way, is still leaking, these bastards are bathing in the money they just got from selling this shit. I see RECORD PROFITS coming out of this. And it's all at the expense of poor people, so who gives a damn, right?
What a disgrace.
Monday, May 17, 2010
YT Roundup 5/10/10-5/16/10 (Muhammad Rmx)
Well, I missed doing my weekly roundup yesterday. And I haven't been watching any YT videos since Saturday when I came back home from college. I've been doing other things and I have sorely neglected this blog. Therefore I will do my best to give you a good update this week to make up for my tardiness.
This is an interesting clip from James Randi, who shares with us a story about being kind to others. This is an interesting video that illustrates that you don't have to believe in God to be moral. Duh...
As an active YouTube user, I really like subscribing to people who actively seek to make good videos that convey their own opinions. MrFreedomDemocracy, a user on YouTube, does a good job talking about fiscal and social issues on his channel. He usually plays political clips and talks about them.
This is a video that does a great job summing up some of my thoughts on religion. I encourage you to read some of the annotations he added to the video that clarifies what he's saying. I'm a little bit mixed on the idea of drawing Muhammad because I know it offends people, but I think that the spirit in which this video is made is pretty positive.
This video is related to the last one in that it actually has a personification or whatever of Muhammad. It is a pretty funny parody of religion. Pizza be upon you.
Footage of the cartoonist (Lars Vilks) who started the whole drawing Muhammad thing being attacked, yet again, by intolerant Muslims who want to silence him. This kind of silencing of dissent and free speech is unacceptable in Western society. I can't emphasize that enough. I think that these videos make it clear that Muslims are never going to be able to restrict speech through violence, a theme that thunderf00t has seized upon in recent weeks/months.
This is a remix of a Gary video posted a long time ago that talks about what he refers to as "the long goodbye". He argues that humanity is on a slow roll to oblivion, and, if I remember the video correctly, he talks about potential things that can be done to possibly prevent this. Stopping our descent into oblivion would require considerable changes to society and the world. This is something that I find very insightful and I really suggest you watch.
An old vid, but a goodie. This is my main man Tom Friedman shutting down Rummy on the invasion of Iraq. Rummy tried to claim that no one in the Bush Administration said that Iraq was an "immediate threat." However, Tom comes back with some quotes straight out of Rummy's mouth in which Rummy claimed that no state posed a more immediate threat to the U.S. than Iraq. Rummy tries to come back at the end of the segment but his answer is really halfhearted and I think he knew that he was defeated. Either that or he was focusing on retaining his composure and just spouted some random crap.
I just wanted to throw this video in the mix because it shows how low the standard for broadcast journalism has truly become. When a chicken crossing the road is news, that's when it's time to get a little peeved with the idiots responsible for telling the public what's supposedly going on. I guess I can forgive KTLA because it was on a morning news show (which are notorious for being not real news), but, still, this is one of the dumbest stories that I've ever seen. Not to mention the fact that KTLA thought that this news story was so good that they decided to feature it on their own YT channel page.
The reporter reminds me a lot of Arnie Pie from The Simpsons, who would try to be a hero and intervene in the news. This lady is like "Okay, I am now going to save the chicken." And then she tries to call the chicken over to her side of the street, which is very dangerous to the chicken's health (since it has to cross the street in traffic). What's more, it's not like the chicken understands English or anything, so why is this dumb c**t trying to act like a hero? She ends up looking like a total joke.
And her name is Jennifer Gould. More like Jennifer Ghoul, amirite?
This is not a new video that I found, but it's definitely a good one nevertheless. I never got around to favoriting this video back in the day.
Guit1.wav from the original Half-Life: Counter-Strike game. This was definitely a favorite of mine back in 5th/6th grade, when I played this game as much as possible. This is from when you're Counter-Terrorist and go left out of spawn. You can hear this music being played in the background. This is very unique because none of the other maps have any custom music loops in the background, let alone at a position where combat usually never takes place. Many of the comments talk about how people would just sit in this corner where they could hear the music and let others fight it out. By the way, the piece is by Mauro Giuliani and it is called "Rossiniana 2".
The only thing that Republicans can say in opposition to Kagan is that she's secretly gay. I think that the charge that she's not liberal enough has a lot more substance than anything GOPers can say against her.
I'll just throw this one in as a bonus.
A good commentary regarding the oil spill. Not for those who don't appreciate liberal use of the word 'fuck'.
Ever since this dude Lance Baxter was fired from Geico for calling FreedomWorks while drunk and asking what percentage of them were mentally retarded, he has gone on to be a formidable enemy of the Tea Party movement, as you can see with this well-made video on the subject of Teabagging.
Well, I guess that's it for the highlight reel. I hope to have some more funny videos up later. Go Lakers!
This is an interesting clip from James Randi, who shares with us a story about being kind to others. This is an interesting video that illustrates that you don't have to believe in God to be moral. Duh...
As an active YouTube user, I really like subscribing to people who actively seek to make good videos that convey their own opinions. MrFreedomDemocracy, a user on YouTube, does a good job talking about fiscal and social issues on his channel. He usually plays political clips and talks about them.
This is a video that does a great job summing up some of my thoughts on religion. I encourage you to read some of the annotations he added to the video that clarifies what he's saying. I'm a little bit mixed on the idea of drawing Muhammad because I know it offends people, but I think that the spirit in which this video is made is pretty positive.
This video is related to the last one in that it actually has a personification or whatever of Muhammad. It is a pretty funny parody of religion. Pizza be upon you.
Footage of the cartoonist (Lars Vilks) who started the whole drawing Muhammad thing being attacked, yet again, by intolerant Muslims who want to silence him. This kind of silencing of dissent and free speech is unacceptable in Western society. I can't emphasize that enough. I think that these videos make it clear that Muslims are never going to be able to restrict speech through violence, a theme that thunderf00t has seized upon in recent weeks/months.
This is a remix of a Gary video posted a long time ago that talks about what he refers to as "the long goodbye". He argues that humanity is on a slow roll to oblivion, and, if I remember the video correctly, he talks about potential things that can be done to possibly prevent this. Stopping our descent into oblivion would require considerable changes to society and the world. This is something that I find very insightful and I really suggest you watch.
An old vid, but a goodie. This is my main man Tom Friedman shutting down Rummy on the invasion of Iraq. Rummy tried to claim that no one in the Bush Administration said that Iraq was an "immediate threat." However, Tom comes back with some quotes straight out of Rummy's mouth in which Rummy claimed that no state posed a more immediate threat to the U.S. than Iraq. Rummy tries to come back at the end of the segment but his answer is really halfhearted and I think he knew that he was defeated. Either that or he was focusing on retaining his composure and just spouted some random crap.
I just wanted to throw this video in the mix because it shows how low the standard for broadcast journalism has truly become. When a chicken crossing the road is news, that's when it's time to get a little peeved with the idiots responsible for telling the public what's supposedly going on. I guess I can forgive KTLA because it was on a morning news show (which are notorious for being not real news), but, still, this is one of the dumbest stories that I've ever seen. Not to mention the fact that KTLA thought that this news story was so good that they decided to feature it on their own YT channel page.
The reporter reminds me a lot of Arnie Pie from The Simpsons, who would try to be a hero and intervene in the news. This lady is like "Okay, I am now going to save the chicken." And then she tries to call the chicken over to her side of the street, which is very dangerous to the chicken's health (since it has to cross the street in traffic). What's more, it's not like the chicken understands English or anything, so why is this dumb c**t trying to act like a hero? She ends up looking like a total joke.
And her name is Jennifer Gould. More like Jennifer Ghoul, amirite?
This is not a new video that I found, but it's definitely a good one nevertheless. I never got around to favoriting this video back in the day.
Guit1.wav from the original Half-Life: Counter-Strike game. This was definitely a favorite of mine back in 5th/6th grade, when I played this game as much as possible. This is from when you're Counter-Terrorist and go left out of spawn. You can hear this music being played in the background. This is very unique because none of the other maps have any custom music loops in the background, let alone at a position where combat usually never takes place. Many of the comments talk about how people would just sit in this corner where they could hear the music and let others fight it out. By the way, the piece is by Mauro Giuliani and it is called "Rossiniana 2".
The only thing that Republicans can say in opposition to Kagan is that she's secretly gay. I think that the charge that she's not liberal enough has a lot more substance than anything GOPers can say against her.
I'll just throw this one in as a bonus.
A good commentary regarding the oil spill. Not for those who don't appreciate liberal use of the word 'fuck'.
Ever since this dude Lance Baxter was fired from Geico for calling FreedomWorks while drunk and asking what percentage of them were mentally retarded, he has gone on to be a formidable enemy of the Tea Party movement, as you can see with this well-made video on the subject of Teabagging.
Well, I guess that's it for the highlight reel. I hope to have some more funny videos up later. Go Lakers!
Sunday, May 9, 2010
YouTube Roundup 5/2/10-5/9/10
So I have some pretty good videos this week that I'd like to share.
Bush's lighthearted moments before he tells the American people about the war.
Another animal video. This time it's a jazz trumpeter and a donkey. Very cool.
Big L (feat. Big Daddy Kane) - Platinum Plus (Instrumental)
Produced by DJ Premier
Album: Platinum Plus (Single)
A dope hip-hop beat!
Dan Barker eviscerates Fox News hack on National Prayer Day.
A funny satire of Palin. These are some funny-ass questions that Powell asks her.
Michael Steele defends trips to Hawaii as not lavish. Good news, he had to dig himself out of a snow-bank to get to the airport.
This is a ridiculous and graphic raid where police barge into a home and kill the homeowner's dogs right in front of their kid. This shows how fucked up the justice system is in this country. Cops can just bust into your house and do anything they want. Then, when they screw up, they get put on "paid leave" until the whole thing boils over, and then they can go back to work fucking with people some more.
Cenk Uygur eviscerates Ken "Kluclownski" over allegations of Obama's "imperial presidency." This hack refuses to admit Bush was more of an imperial president than Obama. He goes on and on about these Czars that Obama has hired and it is very silly.
Brief clip of William Shanahan, the grandfather of the Kritik argument, talking about debate. I totally agree with him. Sometimes it can be crucial to mock what other people hold in high regard to illustrate that these ideals can be subject to criticism. People forget that you can't have rights without having duties that accompany these rights.
This clip from a news program is hilarious because it shows how biased Fox News viewers are. Just look at the debate numbers at the bottom of the video. 89% say that McCain won the debate? And by that big of a margin? Come the fuck on.
Dope 90s hip-hop track featuring Method Man, RZA, and SHAQUILLE O'NEAL. Sounds like a RZA beat. Shaq wasn't that bad on this song. You can actually hear what he's saying.
Final story: Cenk calls out Republicans for their chicanery in running against progressive Bill Halter.
Bush's lighthearted moments before he tells the American people about the war.
Another animal video. This time it's a jazz trumpeter and a donkey. Very cool.
Big L (feat. Big Daddy Kane) - Platinum Plus (Instrumental)
Produced by DJ Premier
Album: Platinum Plus (Single)
A dope hip-hop beat!
Dan Barker eviscerates Fox News hack on National Prayer Day.
A funny satire of Palin. These are some funny-ass questions that Powell asks her.
Michael Steele defends trips to Hawaii as not lavish. Good news, he had to dig himself out of a snow-bank to get to the airport.
This is a ridiculous and graphic raid where police barge into a home and kill the homeowner's dogs right in front of their kid. This shows how fucked up the justice system is in this country. Cops can just bust into your house and do anything they want. Then, when they screw up, they get put on "paid leave" until the whole thing boils over, and then they can go back to work fucking with people some more.
Cenk Uygur eviscerates Ken "Kluclownski" over allegations of Obama's "imperial presidency." This hack refuses to admit Bush was more of an imperial president than Obama. He goes on and on about these Czars that Obama has hired and it is very silly.
Brief clip of William Shanahan, the grandfather of the Kritik argument, talking about debate. I totally agree with him. Sometimes it can be crucial to mock what other people hold in high regard to illustrate that these ideals can be subject to criticism. People forget that you can't have rights without having duties that accompany these rights.
This clip from a news program is hilarious because it shows how biased Fox News viewers are. Just look at the debate numbers at the bottom of the video. 89% say that McCain won the debate? And by that big of a margin? Come the fuck on.
Dope 90s hip-hop track featuring Method Man, RZA, and SHAQUILLE O'NEAL. Sounds like a RZA beat. Shaq wasn't that bad on this song. You can actually hear what he's saying.
Final story: Cenk calls out Republicans for their chicanery in running against progressive Bill Halter.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Site updates
New functions that will impress the user! Added, on the right-hand side near the top of the page, is a link to an "ABOUT THIS BLOG" section. I know that's always what I look at for a tl;dr assessment of blogs, and I really like it when blogs really get down to business and tell you what they're talking about so you don't sort through a bunch of garbage trying to find some gold nugget when in fact they never discuss anything of any significance at all. I've been frustrated with blogs.
Turn it up LOUDER!
Yuck. More consumption and reproduction today. Well, I didn't contribute to any reproduction today, but I certainly participated in consumption of food products. I consumed animal tissue today. I can't say that I'm proud of doing it, but it filled me up and allowed me to do an important thing I had to do without feeling hungry at all.
It's like that one guy said. Life is a bitch and then you die. I'm sorry to have turned all dark these past few posts, but come, let's "kick the ballistics here." We're all just tacitly accepting this titillation machine that is society.
I think it'd be the ultimate irony if Republicans were staged actors who convincingly acted the roles of being bigoted assholes for some other person controlling all this shit behind our backs. Matter of fact, it wouldn't surprise me a bit. You could easily make a sitcom based on what is happening in the political arena. The shit on both sides (but primarily on the Right side) is really over-the-top now to the point that it's so comical. But now the comedic effect is getting played out and it's sinking in that these Republican arseholes are actually legit trying to stall all progress that's happening, despite it being watered down and having a bunch of concessions and whatnot. They're actually united in their opposition to financial reform. I can't think of any party that would really unite on the side of the banks other than some kind of High Federalist or Modernist party of the 18th Century.
So that's why I feel reserved in just doing the day-to-day "fundamental questioning" that this blog tries to offer. Some of the shit that Republicans/Conservatives say is just blatant self-pwnage. Additionally, there are so many things to prove untrue every day that I could never catch up. I feel like some of this stuff is so obvious that I feel like an idiot pointing it out. Am I an idiot for pointing out the obvious?
And I feel like I need to express a few things about the phrase "fundamental questioning" before we continue this inquest, folks. The phrase "fundamental questioning," which is the title of this website, is taken from Jeanne L. Schroeder's 2002 article about Lacanian discourse theory. I don't remember the full quote, but I might post the article if you're interested (why would you be? ;D). This might imply that I believe in the so-called "Lacanian discourse theory" bullshit. I don't think it's a theory at all. It's a joke; it's a sick perversion of a debate argument. But what I agree with in the article is that academia does a lot of bad things to stifle real education and that they promote nonsensical crap as the answer. At least that's how I interpret it. And my interpretation is just as good as anyone else's, I think. I've done the reading on this topic and I will post citations. My entire high school career centered around making this argument make sense to people who weren't familiar with Lacan at all. It also doesn't really advance any kind of meaningful answer at all with regard to how the world works. Ultimately it falls back to psychoanalysis for the answer, which is really just a huge intellectual void. Trust me, I've gotten myself sucked into this void more times than I care to recall. But my point is that this psychoanalytic crap doesn't make a lick of sense.
What (sometimes) makes sense is is psychological appraisals of humanity and making moral judgments based upon those findings. We need to figure out how humans function based upon some kind of scientific (or at least TESTABLE) backing rather than rely upon these whacko assertions about the superego and all that. It's an interesting concept [psychoanalysis], don't get me wrong, but seriously, folks, there isn't an actual part of the brain that actually functions as a literal superego that is being mean to you and telling you that you suck and that you don't fit into the expectations of society and blah dee blaah. You can't just make up these generalizations because then you'd be no better off than a Christian who pounds his Bible and says that everything in there is the truth. When we boil down psychoanalysis, we can see that it's not scientific at all, and all it's good for is jerking ourselves in philosophical situations.
tldr: I love doing the philosophical circle-jerk thing. But seriously, it's not connected at all to the real world. That's what I'm getting at
It's like that one guy said. Life is a bitch and then you die. I'm sorry to have turned all dark these past few posts, but come, let's "kick the ballistics here." We're all just tacitly accepting this titillation machine that is society.
I think it'd be the ultimate irony if Republicans were staged actors who convincingly acted the roles of being bigoted assholes for some other person controlling all this shit behind our backs. Matter of fact, it wouldn't surprise me a bit. You could easily make a sitcom based on what is happening in the political arena. The shit on both sides (but primarily on the Right side) is really over-the-top now to the point that it's so comical. But now the comedic effect is getting played out and it's sinking in that these Republican arseholes are actually legit trying to stall all progress that's happening, despite it being watered down and having a bunch of concessions and whatnot. They're actually united in their opposition to financial reform. I can't think of any party that would really unite on the side of the banks other than some kind of High Federalist or Modernist party of the 18th Century.
So that's why I feel reserved in just doing the day-to-day "fundamental questioning" that this blog tries to offer. Some of the shit that Republicans/Conservatives say is just blatant self-pwnage. Additionally, there are so many things to prove untrue every day that I could never catch up. I feel like some of this stuff is so obvious that I feel like an idiot pointing it out. Am I an idiot for pointing out the obvious?
And I feel like I need to express a few things about the phrase "fundamental questioning" before we continue this inquest, folks. The phrase "fundamental questioning," which is the title of this website, is taken from Jeanne L. Schroeder's 2002 article about Lacanian discourse theory. I don't remember the full quote, but I might post the article if you're interested (why would you be? ;D). This might imply that I believe in the so-called "Lacanian discourse theory" bullshit. I don't think it's a theory at all. It's a joke; it's a sick perversion of a debate argument. But what I agree with in the article is that academia does a lot of bad things to stifle real education and that they promote nonsensical crap as the answer. At least that's how I interpret it. And my interpretation is just as good as anyone else's, I think. I've done the reading on this topic and I will post citations. My entire high school career centered around making this argument make sense to people who weren't familiar with Lacan at all. It also doesn't really advance any kind of meaningful answer at all with regard to how the world works. Ultimately it falls back to psychoanalysis for the answer, which is really just a huge intellectual void. Trust me, I've gotten myself sucked into this void more times than I care to recall. But my point is that this psychoanalytic crap doesn't make a lick of sense.
What (sometimes) makes sense is is psychological appraisals of humanity and making moral judgments based upon those findings. We need to figure out how humans function based upon some kind of scientific (or at least TESTABLE) backing rather than rely upon these whacko assertions about the superego and all that. It's an interesting concept [psychoanalysis], don't get me wrong, but seriously, folks, there isn't an actual part of the brain that actually functions as a literal superego that is being mean to you and telling you that you suck and that you don't fit into the expectations of society and blah dee blaah. You can't just make up these generalizations because then you'd be no better off than a Christian who pounds his Bible and says that everything in there is the truth. When we boil down psychoanalysis, we can see that it's not scientific at all, and all it's good for is jerking ourselves in philosophical situations.
tldr: I love doing the philosophical circle-jerk thing. But seriously, it's not connected at all to the real world. That's what I'm getting at
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Not new thoughts -- primer
I know the meaning of life that nature intended. It sucks. It's all just consumption and reproduction, isn't it? That's really the evolutionary goal if you think about it. Desire manipulates people to think and act in really funny ways. All we're doing in life is chasing desires, some perverted, some realistic. And don't even start with the whole God thing.
Living in this society is kind of like injecting heroin into yourself. The addiction is this game that we're all playing here in society. Get a fucking job, go here, go there, look at the tree, walk into the building, stare at a squirrel, eat dinner, go home, go to bed. In society, we have these responsibilities that keep us tethered to the heroin of society and its attendant problems. It's not exactly easy to leave society, either. This society won't tolerate people killing themselves and being rid of their conscious lives which might suck a whole lot.
Most wealth is inherited in this day and age. The rich get richer and everyone else wallows in the mire. The government owes a whole lot of money to these folks, and you wonder why all the legislation in this country contains so many favors, handouts, loopholes, watered-down provisions, etc. People lament giving up their money because they have this sense of entitlement. We think it's okay that Mark McGwire's son automatically gets to play pro baseball.
That's why "get money, get bitches" is so irrelevant to me. I don't like either of those things a whole lot.
You can never get ahead in life. You can only help to clean up existing messes while you're here on this planet. Our stuff comes at a price paid by more than just the consumer.
Living in this society is kind of like injecting heroin into yourself. The addiction is this game that we're all playing here in society. Get a fucking job, go here, go there, look at the tree, walk into the building, stare at a squirrel, eat dinner, go home, go to bed. In society, we have these responsibilities that keep us tethered to the heroin of society and its attendant problems. It's not exactly easy to leave society, either. This society won't tolerate people killing themselves and being rid of their conscious lives which might suck a whole lot.
Most wealth is inherited in this day and age. The rich get richer and everyone else wallows in the mire. The government owes a whole lot of money to these folks, and you wonder why all the legislation in this country contains so many favors, handouts, loopholes, watered-down provisions, etc. People lament giving up their money because they have this sense of entitlement. We think it's okay that Mark McGwire's son automatically gets to play pro baseball.
That's why "get money, get bitches" is so irrelevant to me. I don't like either of those things a whole lot.
You can never get ahead in life. You can only help to clean up existing messes while you're here on this planet. Our stuff comes at a price paid by more than just the consumer.
Monday, May 3, 2010
Page Design will be altered
I changed the background from white because it's a strain on the eyes when you have a huge, bright monitor. I will continue messing with the layout. If anyone wants to comment, feel free.
YT Roundup, a day late
So things have been pretty uneventful lately, haven't they? At least they have here on my end. Things just keep crawling along with the rising and setting of the sun. I guess people might have thought that I have abandoned this blog. But that's not so! I aim to keep writing, just not at the 1/2 post/day rate that defined the first two months of the blog. I don't like holding myself to any kind of strict schedule. Content comes about at irregular times, so it doesn't make sense to report on something constantly. Might as well go at the speed of life.
For all the Fallout 3 players out there, demonstrating the frustration VATS sometimes gives us when our projectiles land off course or are, in this case, evaded.
I don't like Faux News but this is an entertaining story. It's an interesting interview with the deputy/trooper guy, who has some insightful commentary on what happened. There's also the raw video if you're interested.
Carl Levin eviscerating Goldman Sachs crony on damning emails. A great example of how government can do a good job sometimes.
More boom-bap 90s tracks from my main man, BoomBap90s. That mofo got the fat toons, seen?
A strange video that illustrates some religious morality in action. This is the theocracy of Sarah Palin. In crapitalism we trust!
One of many good speeches given by Obama this past week. Those speechwriters really do know how to crank out some good material. This is Barack bringing back the preacher voice, reiterating his commitment to education. Hopefully he will reform the educational system sometime soon. I'd like to see some drastic progress on that in combination with deficit reduction. How is that gonna work? Beats me, I don't get paid to research these things. But if I were (to get paid), I'd have some pretty dope solutions for the world that would benefit mankind a great deal. My policies might not go over well with the super-rich, but these things would happen anyway and they would have to get used to it. Just like civil rights. /rant
Other than that, I'm pretty heated about the fact that the Gulf of Mexico is covered in oil. Where are the space pictures when you need them. People need to be shown that consumption has a price. I'm not saying that it's a good thing that this happened, but now that it has happened, let this be a profound lesson to the Drilly Baby Drilly crowd. I was watching this video where crony after crony would repeat ad nauseum that offshore rigs were completely safe, completely safe, completely fail-safe. Reminiscent of the shit they were telling people about the economy right before that shit cratered. This is exactly like what happened with the economy. You got a whole industry that self-regulates and is unhealthily obsessed with that black sludge in the ground called oil. Is it any surprise that Halliburton built all that "fail-safe" technology? Where are those commercials talking about how technologically-advanced these oil rigs are? That commercial with that smart-ass scientist dad who rips off his kid's idea of how to finish drinking a milkshake by manipulating the bendy-ness of the bendy straw and reversing it to create a futuristic snake-like oil-sucking device for the commercial. I take a crap on your technologically-advanced oil rigs. I wipe myself with clean coal and flush the whole shebang down the drain. Oil companies need to dig themselves. They steez be on the wackness, dawg.
Gary made an interesting video where he was answering this buffoon named gratex. This dumbo just made stupid allegations in the annotations for his video that Gary was some kind of baby killing Satanist. Gary pwned gratex and then pwned all of the comments. I was flattered he read my comment (longcatisloooooong) where I said that gratex's video made no sense and how it was just a bunch of allegations. Gary didn't understand that I was on his side, and just shrugged off my comment. Okay, my bad. I guess I could have been more specific, maybe I should take a hint and use some cuss words, eh? Then Gary would get the message right quick. He's really the master of bad language.
For all the Fallout 3 players out there, demonstrating the frustration VATS sometimes gives us when our projectiles land off course or are, in this case, evaded.
I don't like Faux News but this is an entertaining story. It's an interesting interview with the deputy/trooper guy, who has some insightful commentary on what happened. There's also the raw video if you're interested.
Carl Levin eviscerating Goldman Sachs crony on damning emails. A great example of how government can do a good job sometimes.
More boom-bap 90s tracks from my main man, BoomBap90s. That mofo got the fat toons, seen?
A strange video that illustrates some religious morality in action. This is the theocracy of Sarah Palin. In crapitalism we trust!
One of many good speeches given by Obama this past week. Those speechwriters really do know how to crank out some good material. This is Barack bringing back the preacher voice, reiterating his commitment to education. Hopefully he will reform the educational system sometime soon. I'd like to see some drastic progress on that in combination with deficit reduction. How is that gonna work? Beats me, I don't get paid to research these things. But if I were (to get paid), I'd have some pretty dope solutions for the world that would benefit mankind a great deal. My policies might not go over well with the super-rich, but these things would happen anyway and they would have to get used to it. Just like civil rights. /rant
Other than that, I'm pretty heated about the fact that the Gulf of Mexico is covered in oil. Where are the space pictures when you need them. People need to be shown that consumption has a price. I'm not saying that it's a good thing that this happened, but now that it has happened, let this be a profound lesson to the Drilly Baby Drilly crowd. I was watching this video where crony after crony would repeat ad nauseum that offshore rigs were completely safe, completely safe, completely fail-safe. Reminiscent of the shit they were telling people about the economy right before that shit cratered. This is exactly like what happened with the economy. You got a whole industry that self-regulates and is unhealthily obsessed with that black sludge in the ground called oil. Is it any surprise that Halliburton built all that "fail-safe" technology? Where are those commercials talking about how technologically-advanced these oil rigs are? That commercial with that smart-ass scientist dad who rips off his kid's idea of how to finish drinking a milkshake by manipulating the bendy-ness of the bendy straw and reversing it to create a futuristic snake-like oil-sucking device for the commercial. I take a crap on your technologically-advanced oil rigs. I wipe myself with clean coal and flush the whole shebang down the drain. Oil companies need to dig themselves. They steez be on the wackness, dawg.
Gary made an interesting video where he was answering this buffoon named gratex. This dumbo just made stupid allegations in the annotations for his video that Gary was some kind of baby killing Satanist. Gary pwned gratex and then pwned all of the comments. I was flattered he read my comment (longcatisloooooong) where I said that gratex's video made no sense and how it was just a bunch of allegations. Gary didn't understand that I was on his side, and just shrugged off my comment. Okay, my bad. I guess I could have been more specific, maybe I should take a hint and use some cuss words, eh? Then Gary would get the message right quick. He's really the master of bad language.
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