article | posted January 17, 2008 (February 4, 2008 issue)
Pity the Man
Sarah Blustain
I got a little caught up in how many times "PAS" popped up in the article. PA-whosy whatsy? Huh?
Post-Abortion Syndrome (PAS) (for men, wooo hoo, let the religious nutjobs begin the bibble babble)
Bwaa haa haa haaa haaa haaaa, you've got to be kidding me. Now why would I say that?
...To begin with, if the science on women's PAS is bad, what exists on men is junk. Mainstream researchers, psychologists and professors agree there is no valid research on PAS and men...
...Suddenly, using nothing but anecdote framed in scientific forms, a single abortion has not one victim, or even two, but three or four or five. And beyond that, millions of abortions have millions of victims: one in four women, and by extension one in four men, and one in four parents, and countless children, until society itself is a victim, filled with all sorts of personal and interpersonal tragedies of divorce, drug use and suicide from which we--all Americans--need protection....
Bwaa haa haa haaa haaa haaaa,
Yeah, I got your PAS right here:
Population Analysis Spreadsheets (PAS)
I got no sympathy for Americans who abort an inviable fetus because for many resources, the United States of America is the world's largest consumer in absolute terms.
Life is tough, boys and the world population isn't going to make it any easier.
Shit. Kucinich just quit the presidential race.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Media coverage analyzed -- Islam and the West
From the News Dissector
For something different: Artists Against the War.
...Countries covered
Twelve Muslim majority countries: Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Morocco, Palestine Territories, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and United Arab Emirates.
Twelve non-Muslim majority countries: Brazil, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Namibia, Russia, South Africa, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States...
...KEY FINDINGS1. Primacy of international politics: Coverage of Middle East conflicts dominated media coverage of Muslim-West relations.
2. Negative tone towards the “other”: While most coverage of Muslim-West issues contained no positive or negative judgements, media from Muslim majority countries were more likely to provide negative coverage of individuals and groups associated with Christianity and Judaism and with non-Muslim majority countries. Conversely, media from non-Muslim majority countries covered Muslim majority countries and Muslim protagonists more negatively, but to a lesser degree....
...Media from Muslim majority countries presented an especially negative tone in their coverage of non-Muslim actors...
(click on title link for the whole report, yeah I cherry-picked out of Danny's post, for my special Jew-hater Muslim trolls)
For something different: Artists Against the War.
Ok, so I was wrong
About Hillary vs. Fred.
Whew.
Sometimes it's good to be wrong.
Ok, so who's excited about Hillary vs McCain?
Oh.
Just the fReeptards hunh?
Americans want changes.
What type of changes?
Whew.
Sometimes it's good to be wrong.
Ok, so who's excited about Hillary vs McCain?
Oh.
Just the fReeptards hunh?
Americans want changes.
What type of changes?
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Tomgram: Chalmers Johnson, How to Sink America
Posted January 22, 2008 3:27 pm
...The supplementary budget to pay for the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, not part of the official defense budget, is itself larger than the combined military budgets of Russia and China. Defense-related spending for fiscal 2008 will exceed $1 trillion for the first time in history. The United States has become the largest single salesman of arms and munitions to other nations on Earth...
Oh. My. God.
We are Gunzilla Empire.
See if you can figure out why I think these stories are related?
...The supplementary budget to pay for the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, not part of the official defense budget, is itself larger than the combined military budgets of Russia and China. Defense-related spending for fiscal 2008 will exceed $1 trillion for the first time in history. The United States has become the largest single salesman of arms and munitions to other nations on Earth...
Oh. My. God.
We are Gunzilla Empire.
See if you can figure out why I think these stories are related?
Monday, January 21, 2008
Pentagon Explores 'Human Fear' Chemicals; Scare-Sensors, 'Contagious' Stress in the Works?
By David Hambling January 18, 2008 12:00:00
American military researchers are working to uncover and harness the most terrifying chemical imaginable: that most primal odor, the scent of fear.
I found this interesting:
"For most of the observed compounds, men showed an increase in the compound emission during acute emotional stress, while women showed either no change or a decrease in emission of the compound."
So yeah, you guys want to fuck with each other, go ahead, but you're gonna have to leave us ladies out of this shit.
Ha Ha, fuck the Pentagon.
Badtux the Snarky Penguin has more on their competence:
Terrorists deploy bomb in ocean near San Diego
Whoops!
Eh, it's raining. The joggers find all the fun stuff on the teevee shows, they'll probably find this. Click on the picture for the really scary story.
American military researchers are working to uncover and harness the most terrifying chemical imaginable: that most primal odor, the scent of fear.
I found this interesting:
"For most of the observed compounds, men showed an increase in the compound emission during acute emotional stress, while women showed either no change or a decrease in emission of the compound."
So yeah, you guys want to fuck with each other, go ahead, but you're gonna have to leave us ladies out of this shit.
Ha Ha, fuck the Pentagon.
Badtux the Snarky Penguin has more on their competence:
Terrorists deploy bomb in ocean near San Diego
Whoops!
Eh, it's raining. The joggers find all the fun stuff on the teevee shows, they'll probably find this. Click on the picture for the really scary story.
Wow, after reading Sowing the seeds of a future society, reading that Mexico closes main oil ports due to bad weather
Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:49pm GMT
...Mexico is the world's No. 9 exporter of crude oil, shipping an average of 1.7 million barrels per day in 2007, and a top-three supplier to the United States...
somehow seems uh.....to inspire higher concerns than whether the port being closed temporarily will make the next tank of gas more expensive.
Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:49pm GMT
...Mexico is the world's No. 9 exporter of crude oil, shipping an average of 1.7 million barrels per day in 2007, and a top-three supplier to the United States...
somehow seems uh.....to inspire higher concerns than whether the port being closed temporarily will make the next tank of gas more expensive.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Gaza blackout
Update: Israel to ease blockade of Gaza
Last Updated: Monday, 21 January 2008, 20:20 GMT
Israel Keeps up raids despite blackouts.
We pay for this shit you know. You think this grinning idiot would have a chance in hell entering national politics if he didn't suck up to the Israel lobby?
Last Updated: Monday, 21 January 2008, 20:20 GMT
Israel Keeps up raids despite blackouts.
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[Reuters] |
Gaza City has been plunged into darkness after its only power plant was shut down on the third day of a crippling Israeli fuel blockade of the Palestinian territory
We pay for this shit you know. You think this grinning idiot would have a chance in hell entering national politics if he didn't suck up to the Israel lobby?
Dude, where's my voting machine software?
Election Software Lost in Transit
By Kim Zetter
December 20, 2007
...In San Diego County, one of the empty tubes arrived with no lid on the end of it to close the tube; the second tube had a lid, but it was loosely taped shut....
...The chips contained firmware to run the optical-scan equipment that San Diego uses in its central counting office.
The title of this article made me laugh out loud:
Electronic voting will greatly enhance democracy in Kenya
COMMENTARY
Story by ANDREW LIMO Digital World
PubPublication Date: 1/18/2008
(they must be pushing Diebold electronic voting machines in this "commentary")
... Brazil introduced electronic voting in 1996 where about 110 million voters used the computer to elect leaders — from mayors to the president.
Signs in Kenya That Killings Were Planned
Violence continued in Kenya, where on Sunday the police and residents tried to quell a fire set in the Mathare slum in Nairobi.
by JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
Published: January 21, 2008
A Superior Court Judge has issued a tentative ruling against the County of San Diego in its suit, challenging the Secretary of State.
Ummmm, yeah, here's another laughable article title:
New rules will bring security to ballot box
By Tom Elias
Article Launched: 01/20/2008 07:45:59 PM PST
Why is it laughable?
...Sen. Hillary Clinton ran far stronger in counties where votes were counted on Diebold Accuvote optical scan machines than where paper ballots were counted by hand...
By Kim Zetter
December 20, 2007
...In San Diego County, one of the empty tubes arrived with no lid on the end of it to close the tube; the second tube had a lid, but it was loosely taped shut....
...The chips contained firmware to run the optical-scan equipment that San Diego uses in its central counting office.
The title of this article made me laugh out loud:
Electronic voting will greatly enhance democracy in Kenya
COMMENTARY
Story by ANDREW LIMO Digital World
PubPublication Date: 1/18/2008
(they must be pushing Diebold electronic voting machines in this "commentary")
... Brazil introduced electronic voting in 1996 where about 110 million voters used the computer to elect leaders — from mayors to the president.
Signs in Kenya That Killings Were Planned
Violence continued in Kenya, where on Sunday the police and residents tried to quell a fire set in the Mathare slum in Nairobi.
by JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
Published: January 21, 2008
A Superior Court Judge has issued a tentative ruling against the County of San Diego in its suit, challenging the Secretary of State.
Ummmm, yeah, here's another laughable article title:
New rules will bring security to ballot box
By Tom Elias
Article Launched: 01/20/2008 07:45:59 PM PST
Why is it laughable?
...Sen. Hillary Clinton ran far stronger in counties where votes were counted on Diebold Accuvote optical scan machines than where paper ballots were counted by hand...
Do you have any idea who you're watching?
Chrystia Freeland needs her snotty, pompous, elitist ass kicked.
Can you just imagine her creaming her lacy panties over McCain's claiming he is the successor to Maggie Thatcher? Bet those panties looked great under that prep school. cheerleading uniform
What is that, a stage name?
I'm bloody sick of the asspress shoving McCain & Hillary at us.
The financial sector knows damn well that that those ho's is open for bidness and that's why they are pushing that horesrace.
Well, Freeland is the darling of the investor's press.
She's supposed to be some expert on Russia.
She should know better than this, after all she wrote this:
Sale of the Century.
Make sure you look at the reviews, the sources of them, and the lack of substance are revealing.
This mess started with Friedman and his Chicago Boys. Nobody wants Americans to know that the "diplomatic difficulties" that we are experiencing with Russia have anything to do with American based organizations, and multinational corporations based in the US, raping and pillaging Russia. Looks like the bastard lived to see revenge done on the family oppressors.
Maybe.
Hmmmm. According to my textbook the meltdown that resulted in the looting and pillage of Russia can be attributed to the fact that:
"In many cases, workers acquired 49 percent of the stock in their company, while the former government managers received 51 percent and effective control. The vouchers given to the general public could later be traded for company stock. While millions of Russians did trade at least a part of their vouchers for stocks, the majority did not. Having lived their lives under communism, most had no understanding of the potential value of their vouchers and they willingly sold them to speculators for a small reaction of their potential worth. Armed with these vouchers and ties to the Kremlin, and aided by healthy bribes, these budding entrepreneurs were able to purchase state firms at perhaps 10 percent of their real value, thereby emerging as a new class of super tycoons generally known as the oligarchs."
Ummm, yeah, privatization, which generally involves downsizing, shuts down factories and people lose their jobs. These people (who up until this time had no reason to understand the stock market anyway) were hungry.
Wake up, little Chrystia, all will not end well, no matter who's buttering your bread.
Or providing milk for your cereal.
Here's the antidote to corporate media and sister Chrystia's mindlessness
Can you just imagine her creaming her lacy panties over McCain's claiming he is the successor to Maggie Thatcher? Bet those panties looked great under that prep school. cheerleading uniform
What is that, a stage name?
I'm bloody sick of the asspress shoving McCain & Hillary at us.
The financial sector knows damn well that that those ho's is open for bidness and that's why they are pushing that horesrace.
Well, Freeland is the darling of the investor's press.
She's supposed to be some expert on Russia.
She should know better than this, after all she wrote this:
Sale of the Century.
Make sure you look at the reviews, the sources of them, and the lack of substance are revealing.
This mess started with Friedman and his Chicago Boys. Nobody wants Americans to know that the "diplomatic difficulties" that we are experiencing with Russia have anything to do with American based organizations, and multinational corporations based in the US, raping and pillaging Russia. Looks like the bastard lived to see revenge done on the family oppressors.
Maybe.
Hmmmm. According to my textbook the meltdown that resulted in the looting and pillage of Russia can be attributed to the fact that:
"In many cases, workers acquired 49 percent of the stock in their company, while the former government managers received 51 percent and effective control. The vouchers given to the general public could later be traded for company stock. While millions of Russians did trade at least a part of their vouchers for stocks, the majority did not. Having lived their lives under communism, most had no understanding of the potential value of their vouchers and they willingly sold them to speculators for a small reaction of their potential worth. Armed with these vouchers and ties to the Kremlin, and aided by healthy bribes, these budding entrepreneurs were able to purchase state firms at perhaps 10 percent of their real value, thereby emerging as a new class of super tycoons generally known as the oligarchs."
Ummm, yeah, privatization, which generally involves downsizing, shuts down factories and people lose their jobs. These people (who up until this time had no reason to understand the stock market anyway) were hungry.
Wake up, little Chrystia, all will not end well, no matter who's buttering your bread.
Or providing milk for your cereal.
Here's the antidote to corporate media and sister Chrystia's mindlessness
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Pregnant Marine never feared colleague wanted in her dead
Associated Press - January 16, 2008 12:03 AM ET
ehhh whut?
Who checks the web postings at this newz station?
Associated Press - January 16, 2008 12:03 AM ET
ehhh whut?
Who checks the web postings at this newz station?
Bushwhacker blood
Jenna Bush Planning May 10 Wedding
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 16, 2008 06:45 PM EST
By David Caplan and Sandra Sobieraj-Westfall
Eeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwww.
That means it's going to start breeding.
Just what we need, more Bushwhacker blood.
You think the caterers will accept Saudi rials?
Hmmmm, how's daddy's war going?
What's that you say, Iraqi's are growing opium poppies to survive , hhhhm, where have we seen that before?
Mmm, and before that?
Opium has long history of beng used by Empires, actually.
Well, there's a presidential election coming up, howz'bout the American people elect a president who cares more about them than profits, eh?
Study: John Edwards Doesn't Exist
January 16, 2008 -- 5:31 PM EST // //
A new study finds that John Edwards doesn't exist.
Allow me to explain.
After John Edwards placed second in the Iowa caucus on January 3, Elizabeth Edwards took to the airwaves to argue that his finish should occasion the media to stop covering the Dem contest as little more than a showdown between two political superstars, Hillary and Obama. Not surprisingly, nobody listened to her.
Dennis?
McCain?
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
China Tightens Controls on Food Prices
By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer
BEIJING (AP) - China took its most drastic step yet on Wednesday to slow a rapid rise in politically sensitive food prices, ordering producers to obtain government approval for any further increases....
Also Wednesday, the government said a crackdown on illegal pricing has cut the cost of liquefied natural gas in China by up to 19 percent. LNG is widely used in China for cooking.Investigators found LNG producers and retailers colluded to raise prices or violated government price controls, the NDRC said.
Gas producers are the second industry hit by price-fixing claims after the NDRC said in August that noodle makers illegally colluded to push up retail prices by up to 40 percent.
2008-01-16 12:17:07 GMT
So China need natural gas for cooking.
Iran has natural gas
China has shitloads of US Treasury bonds .
So China can tell the US to buzz off.
Unless US and Chinese reps want to get together for photo-ops.
Come oooon, anybody believe that Negroponte gives two shits about human rights?
Ok now go laugh, this is funny.
BEIJING (AP) - China took its most drastic step yet on Wednesday to slow a rapid rise in politically sensitive food prices, ordering producers to obtain government approval for any further increases....
Also Wednesday, the government said a crackdown on illegal pricing has cut the cost of liquefied natural gas in China by up to 19 percent. LNG is widely used in China for cooking.Investigators found LNG producers and retailers colluded to raise prices or violated government price controls, the NDRC said.
Gas producers are the second industry hit by price-fixing claims after the NDRC said in August that noodle makers illegally colluded to push up retail prices by up to 40 percent.
2008-01-16 12:17:07 GMT
So China need natural gas for cooking.
Iran has natural gas
China has shitloads of US Treasury bonds .
So China can tell the US to buzz off.
Unless US and Chinese reps want to get together for photo-ops.
Come oooon, anybody believe that Negroponte gives two shits about human rights?
Ok now go laugh, this is funny.
Bush Exempts Navy From Environmental Law
(click on pic for C&L "Die, Whales Die!!!" post.)
Bush Exempts Navy From Environmental Law
PAULINE JELINEK | January 16, 2008 01:50 PM EST | AP
WASHINGTON — President Bush exempted the Navy from an environmental law so it can continue using sonar in its anti-submarine warfare training off the California coast _ a practice critics say is harmful to whales and other marine mammals.
How many times have I posted on this?
How many more days do we have to deal with this asshole? I knew he would get his way in less than six months, and the spoiled rotten fucktard piece of shit did.
Yes, I did just call the president of the US a FUCKTARD PIECE OF SHIT. We will have to deal with the world-wide devastation of this administration, stemming from the absolute fanatical worship at the altar of the "free market," for the rest of our lives, our kids lives, and if the planet can still sustain lives, our great great grand children's lives.
You don't get the connection between allowing the military to train and the "free market" neocon fucktards?
Cubby Holes.
You think the federal dollars are heading to San Diego study the health of the ocean?
Or to the military-industrial-congressional-complex?
Which WILL protect the profits of the privatization warriors.
Fuckers are making money on both sides of the "war on terra."
Upper management seems to think that they are playing with toy soldiers.
Not human beings.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Disenfranchising Kucinich
NBC Fights to Keep Kucinich Out of Debate
Are you FUCKing kidding me?
( JP isn't happy about this either)
So according to Randi Rhodes (yeah, you know, that liberal woman who tells the truth and does her homework, that I have to stream from other cities because my city is full of greedy RepugnantThuglican chickenshit assholes? ) Kucinich was invited by NBC, then DIS invited, then he sued NBC to be allowed into the debate.
Randi's also talking about how to vote in Michigan today and make sure your vote is counted. If you write anything in, your ballot will be tossed.
Empty Dem primary upsets voters
By KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN
The Associated Press
January 13. 2008 12:41AM
For Michigan voters, the state's early primary is either an exciting contest to pick the candidate who may be the eventual Republican nominee or an unsatisfying choice between Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton and "Uncommitted."
Republican leaders are ecstatic, while Democratic leaders are trying to put the best spin on a process that has left many Democratic voters disgruntled, since Barack Obama and John Edwards have pulled their names off the ballot.
So how's voting going in Michigan today?
Are you FUCKing kidding me?
( JP isn't happy about this either)
So according to Randi Rhodes (yeah, you know, that liberal woman who tells the truth and does her homework, that I have to stream from other cities because my city is full of greedy RepugnantThuglican chickenshit assholes? ) Kucinich was invited by NBC, then DIS invited, then he sued NBC to be allowed into the debate.
Randi's also talking about how to vote in Michigan today and make sure your vote is counted. If you write anything in, your ballot will be tossed.
Empty Dem primary upsets voters
By KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN
The Associated Press
January 13. 2008 12:41AM
For Michigan voters, the state's early primary is either an exciting contest to pick the candidate who may be the eventual Republican nominee or an unsatisfying choice between Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton and "Uncommitted."
Republican leaders are ecstatic, while Democratic leaders are trying to put the best spin on a process that has left many Democratic voters disgruntled, since Barack Obama and John Edwards have pulled their names off the ballot.
So how's voting going in Michigan today?
Primaries and Caucuses (link to dates)
Update The Fishwrap pees it's pants in excitement over Kucinich's inability to participate in debate
Monday, January 14, 2008
Horse race
I tried to explain it here , but I didn't use the word horse race.
I'm sick of the media and their sloppy, sensationalist coverage of political campaigns as if they were a horse race. I'm sick of seeing only those candidates who can pay for advertising and take huge amounts of money from corporate America.
Editor and Publisher has a great OpEd on the history of this phenomenon:
When 'Mad Men' In Media Took Control of Political Campaigns
Upton Sinclair is back, thanks to 'There Will Be Blood' movie ties. But in 1934 his race for governor gave birth to the modern media-based political campaign.
By Greg Mitchell
NEW YORK (January 11, 2008) --
I'm sick of the media and their sloppy, sensationalist coverage of political campaigns as if they were a horse race. I'm sick of seeing only those candidates who can pay for advertising and take huge amounts of money from corporate America.
Editor and Publisher has a great OpEd on the history of this phenomenon:
When 'Mad Men' In Media Took Control of Political Campaigns
Upton Sinclair is back, thanks to 'There Will Be Blood' movie ties. But in 1934 his race for governor gave birth to the modern media-based political campaign.
By Greg Mitchell
NEW YORK (January 11, 2008) --
Are we frightened and angry enough to be this ugly again?
Readers Say No to Polls, Illegal Immigrants (WaPo dot.comments, Doug Feaver)
Our Readers Who Comment today make two things very clear:
1) They don't trust polls.
2) They are angry about illegal immigration.
Fed official metes mortgage meltdown blame
St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President, William Poole, says housing woes were caused by familiar mistakes.
Oakland City Attorney Announces Predatory Lending Fight
By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor (10-19-07)
...foreclosures in Oakland...—a heavily African-American and Latino area represented by Reid—having the highest foreclosure rate in the city, at 14.9 foreclosures per 1,000 homes.
The fact sheet said that citizens of color were most likely to be victims of predatory lending practices, with African-American and Latino homebuyers 3.8 times more likely to have received a high-cost loan than whites, and neighborhoods of color 23.6 times more likely to get higher-cost refinance loans than white neighborhoods....
Some stories hard to get in history books
Updated 4/5/2006 1:36 AM
By Kasie Hunt, USA TODAY
Most high school students in the USA probably don't know that tens of thousands of Mexican-Americans — many of them legal residents or even U.S. citizens — were forcibly sent to Mexico during the depths of the Depression. That's because few history books even mention it.
Related story: U.S. urged to apologize for deportations
Our Readers Who Comment today make two things very clear:
1) They don't trust polls.
2) They are angry about illegal immigration.
Fed official metes mortgage meltdown blame
St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President, William Poole, says housing woes were caused by familiar mistakes.
Oakland City Attorney Announces Predatory Lending Fight
By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor (10-19-07)
...foreclosures in Oakland...—a heavily African-American and Latino area represented by Reid—having the highest foreclosure rate in the city, at 14.9 foreclosures per 1,000 homes.
The fact sheet said that citizens of color were most likely to be victims of predatory lending practices, with African-American and Latino homebuyers 3.8 times more likely to have received a high-cost loan than whites, and neighborhoods of color 23.6 times more likely to get higher-cost refinance loans than white neighborhoods....
Some stories hard to get in history books
Updated 4/5/2006 1:36 AM
By Kasie Hunt, USA TODAY
Most high school students in the USA probably don't know that tens of thousands of Mexican-Americans — many of them legal residents or even U.S. citizens — were forcibly sent to Mexico during the depths of the Depression. That's because few history books even mention it.
Related story: U.S. urged to apologize for deportations
Sunday, January 13, 2008
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
I'm still reading the Shock Doctrine ( here is a somewhat strange review of the book ) and comparing it to the textbook for the Political Science class that I just finished. I am disgusted that the chapters in the textbook that deal with Russia, China, Mexico, Developing Nations, and sections on terrorism are so glaringly incomplete. They automatically steer the reader (generally students in their twenties) towards accepting the political unrest in those places without understanding it. Divorcing the unrest from the forced economic policies that create it does the students a disservice. Something tells me that the schools using these crappy textbooks are not going to have administrators who would enable the professors to encourage their students to ALSO read Klein's Shock Doctrine.
Milton Friedman is referenced in the textbook twice, in a positive way. The IMF and World Bank are referenced in the index twice, once hilariously to the page on International Terrorism, but absent on that page. At least they mentioned that Agusto Pinochet was led by US trained economists, and Friedman hailed the Chilean economic system as "one of the world's purest capitalist systems." No mention of how that fabulously pure system needed the brutality of Pinochet's regime to become so fabulously pure and hailed as such.
Hmmmm.
Why do I have to read a book by a Canadian author to find out just how much power two institutions based in the United States have?
This says something about our education system and the corporations that seem to have an inordinate amount of control over what is taught in it, despite that fact that they pay less and less taxes to fund it.
Milton Friedman is referenced in the textbook twice, in a positive way. The IMF and World Bank are referenced in the index twice, once hilariously to the page on International Terrorism, but absent on that page. At least they mentioned that Agusto Pinochet was led by US trained economists, and Friedman hailed the Chilean economic system as "one of the world's purest capitalist systems." No mention of how that fabulously pure system needed the brutality of Pinochet's regime to become so fabulously pure and hailed as such.
Hmmmm.
Why do I have to read a book by a Canadian author to find out just how much power two institutions based in the United States have?
This says something about our education system and the corporations that seem to have an inordinate amount of control over what is taught in it, despite that fact that they pay less and less taxes to fund it.
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Why Obama's message of hope resonates
Dudes.
If Obama wins the primaries and then the Presidency, I got me a few clues as to why.
We, as Americans need some hope and some redemption.
You see, our sane friends have about given up on us.
We got totally loopy friends left.
But are they our friends?
And where does the animosity in the region come from?
We fried the fuck out of our military.
The whole country (Well, a minimum of 70% anyway) is looking at the idiot president and his party of greed, selfishness, homophobia, pedophilia, hypocrisy, and warmongering and they want these liars, cheats, and thieves gone.
Fuck 'em, we've had enough , kick their asses to the curb, please.
I hope my government doesn't get in the way of my voting in a new adminsitration, but I think they will, at least locally.
So does it really matter who Obama is? (Or isn't? )
Yes.
Yes it does.
Damn, just click on the last 2 & find out what you can about the man, I did your freaking homework for you, yeeesh. Gotta admit, though, the guy gives great speech doesn't he?
If Obama wins the primaries and then the Presidency, I got me a few clues as to why.
We, as Americans need some hope and some redemption.
You see, our sane friends have about given up on us.
We got totally loopy friends left.
But are they our friends?
And where does the animosity in the region come from?
We fried the fuck out of our military.
The whole country (Well, a minimum of 70% anyway) is looking at the idiot president and his party of greed, selfishness, homophobia, pedophilia, hypocrisy, and warmongering and they want these liars, cheats, and thieves gone.
Fuck 'em, we've had enough , kick their asses to the curb, please.
I hope my government doesn't get in the way of my voting in a new adminsitration, but I think they will, at least locally.
So does it really matter who Obama is? (Or isn't? )
Yes.
Yes it does.
Damn, just click on the last 2 & find out what you can about the man, I did your freaking homework for you, yeeesh. Gotta admit, though, the guy gives great speech doesn't he?
Friday, January 11, 2008
The teevee shows tonight
The Latino Vote 2008
Week of 1.11.08 (NOW)
(Bill Moyer's Journal)
Margins of Error: Poll Reading Tips
Shelby Steele on Race in America
(I like this lady, she's fair)
Kathleen Hall Jamieson LOOKS BEHIND THE HEADLINES
Week of 1.11.08 (NOW)
(Bill Moyer's Journal)
Margins of Error: Poll Reading Tips
Shelby Steele on Race in America
Kathleen Hall Jamieson LOOKS BEHIND THE HEADLINES
Indonesia's abortion victims (click here for article)
I am not "pro-abortion" but I AM pro-choice. If you are female and you don't want an abortion Don't Have One. Have the kid and take care of it yourself, or take care of it with a man who also chooses to have a child with you. How simple is that?
If you're a man shut the fuck up, sit down and fucking listen. It's not your body. Got that? It's not your choice. With a booming global population and a not so booming global labor movement, it's a fabulous time for a rich capitalist to work you, your wife and your children right into an early grave. The fact that women are forced to squirt out ten kids because some men are selfish pigs who think they can demand sex any time THEY want it is reprehensible. Thirty seconds of pleasure can create lifetimes of misery. Men have no business telling women on this planet at this time that they must breed. The population has doubled in my lifetime.There are three times as many people on the planet now as is possible to live on the planet comfortably and sustainably. Great for the asinine economists who think that never ending growth is possible. Not so great for the poor and the disenfranchised.
If you're a man shut the fuck up, sit down and fucking listen. It's not your body. Got that? It's not your choice. With a booming global population and a not so booming global labor movement, it's a fabulous time for a rich capitalist to work you, your wife and your children right into an early grave. The fact that women are forced to squirt out ten kids because some men are selfish pigs who think they can demand sex any time THEY want it is reprehensible. Thirty seconds of pleasure can create lifetimes of misery. Men have no business telling women on this planet at this time that they must breed. The population has doubled in my lifetime.There are three times as many people on the planet now as is possible to live on the planet comfortably and sustainably. Great for the asinine economists who think that never ending growth is possible. Not so great for the poor and the disenfranchised.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Local and national Diebold crap
Security Concerns Sideline Electronic Voting Machines
POSTED: 9:54 pm PST January 7, 2008
UPDATED: 9:58 pm PST January 7, 2008
San Diego Voters Confront Board of Supervisors
January 10, 2008
Diary Entry by Mark E. Smith
First they buy hackable voting machines against our advice, and now they're suing the Secretary of State for trying to make them more secure.Our Registrar of Voters (ROV) is a former Diebold salesperson, Deborah Seilor, and our Assistant ROV is Michael Vu who, when his elections officials were videotaped rigging a recount, said that he didn't think they'd done anything wrong. Vu was hired by Walter Eckard, the County Executive Officer, who was appointed by an all-Republican Board of Supervisors who have been in power for more than 12 years. The very last thing they want is honest elections. So I posted a link to the video of this morning's Board of Supervisors meeting, where some citizens stood up and confronted the Board.
http://www.care2.com/news/member/101933861/596126/ppClick
Click on "visit site" and then use the times I've noted to see the public comments without having to watch the whole meeting.
Columnist: Was There Electoral Fraud in New Hampshire?
By E&P Staff
Published: January 10, 2008 11:40 AM ET
Update 4:29 PM 1/10/2008 watch Olbermann.
Today this blog is two years old. OK then.
POSTED: 9:54 pm PST January 7, 2008
UPDATED: 9:58 pm PST January 7, 2008
San Diego Voters Confront Board of Supervisors
January 10, 2008
Diary Entry by Mark E. Smith
First they buy hackable voting machines against our advice, and now they're suing the Secretary of State for trying to make them more secure.Our Registrar of Voters (ROV) is a former Diebold salesperson, Deborah Seilor, and our Assistant ROV is Michael Vu who, when his elections officials were videotaped rigging a recount, said that he didn't think they'd done anything wrong. Vu was hired by Walter Eckard, the County Executive Officer, who was appointed by an all-Republican Board of Supervisors who have been in power for more than 12 years. The very last thing they want is honest elections. So I posted a link to the video of this morning's Board of Supervisors meeting, where some citizens stood up and confronted the Board.
http://www.care2.com/news/member/101933861/596126/ppClick
Click on "visit site" and then use the times I've noted to see the public comments without having to watch the whole meeting.
Columnist: Was There Electoral Fraud in New Hampshire?
By E&P Staff
Published: January 10, 2008 11:40 AM ET
Update 4:29 PM 1/10/2008 watch Olbermann.
Today this blog is two years old. OK then.
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
If you're gonna bust the pastor with child porn
For God's sake get a warrant, you idiot.
Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2008
Pastor Wins Battle Over Porn Taken From Office Computer
Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2008
Pastor Wins Battle Over Porn Taken From Office Computer
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
politics
You'd think that when I chose the name politickybitch for this blog that I would devote a majority of posts to politics. That's losing it's charm, & frankly the people on my blogroll cover politics
better than I do. I look at the sixteen candidates that the corporations and the corporate media are quickly whittling down to two that they can "do bidness wid" and I'm more determined than ever to give the finger to the corporate whores and vote for the candidate who makes sense to me.
Take this quiz to find your candidate
Or take this one
The corporate newz sucks, so I go elsewhere. The movie reviews suck, so I get my opinions on those elsewhere also:
Thank heavens, then, that Chalmers Johnson, whose magisterial book Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (the final volume of his Blowback Trilogy) will be appearing in paperback this month, puts a little history back into Charlie Wilson's War in his own inimitable manner. Tom
Tomgram: Chalmers Johnson, An Imperialist Comedy
(The Blowback trilogy is well worth reading.)
better than I do. I look at the sixteen candidates that the corporations and the corporate media are quickly whittling down to two that they can "do bidness wid" and I'm more determined than ever to give the finger to the corporate whores and vote for the candidate who makes sense to me.
Take this quiz to find your candidate
Or take this one
The corporate newz sucks, so I go elsewhere. The movie reviews suck, so I get my opinions on those elsewhere also:
Thank heavens, then, that Chalmers Johnson, whose magisterial book Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (the final volume of his Blowback Trilogy) will be appearing in paperback this month, puts a little history back into Charlie Wilson's War in his own inimitable manner. Tom
Tomgram: Chalmers Johnson, An Imperialist Comedy
(The Blowback trilogy is well worth reading.)
Monday, January 07, 2008
Domestic violence
Seems to be today's topic. My humble little blog was visited by Ellen Sheeley, the author of
Reclaiming Honor in Jordan: A National Public Opinion Survey on "Honor" Killings . Thank you kindly Ms. Sheeley.I'm still reading Naomi Klein's the Shock Doctrine which is chock full of horrific stories of violence perpetrated on peoples in order to implement brutal economic systems.
There has been quite a lively discussion over at JP's Welcome to Pottersville . Someone left a long winded comment about women not being the perps in most cases of violence, including wars and genocide. There are exceptions. Memories of girls that I knew as a teenager and young adult came flooding back as I read "8 ball chicks" by Gini Sikes. The girls I knew were victims and perps. It goes like that. For reals.
I myself have been a victim of domestic violence AND a perp. My experience has been that being a perpetrator of domestic violence was much more frightening than being a victim of it. Breaking the cycle of domestic violence is difficult to say the least, but worth the work involved.
Try here, or contact the national domestic violence hotline
Reclaiming Honor in Jordan: A National Public Opinion Survey on "Honor" Killings . Thank you kindly Ms. Sheeley.I'm still reading Naomi Klein's the Shock Doctrine which is chock full of horrific stories of violence perpetrated on peoples in order to implement brutal economic systems.
There has been quite a lively discussion over at JP's Welcome to Pottersville . Someone left a long winded comment about women not being the perps in most cases of violence, including wars and genocide. There are exceptions. Memories of girls that I knew as a teenager and young adult came flooding back as I read "8 ball chicks" by Gini Sikes. The girls I knew were victims and perps. It goes like that. For reals.
I myself have been a victim of domestic violence AND a perp. My experience has been that being a perpetrator of domestic violence was much more frightening than being a victim of it. Breaking the cycle of domestic violence is difficult to say the least, but worth the work involved.
Try here, or contact the national domestic violence hotline
Saturday, January 05, 2008
Wimmins be thinkin too much
You want to know why population issues are so important to me?
By Brad Arnold:
Bush
Populations tend to increase at a geometrical rate, whereas the means of subsistence increases at just an arithmetical rate. Without the checks of disease, famine, and war, human populations will double their size every 25 years. (An idea advanced by Thomas Robert Malthus)
The world’s population reached 1 billion for the first time in 1830. It took 120 years to double to 2 billion, and just 30 years to reach 3 billion. The world’s
population is now over 6 billion people.
Our increased means of subsistence is due to technology and a climate favorable for agriculture. Modern medicine, industrialized farming, and use of fossil fuel have reduced disease and famine. Furthermore, we’ve enjoyed an exceptionally mild climate period called the Holocene.
go read the rest
This is totally unrelated, but why is the EPA in bed with car dealers, and useless as teats on a boar in California?
By Brad Arnold:
Bush
Populations tend to increase at a geometrical rate, whereas the means of subsistence increases at just an arithmetical rate. Without the checks of disease, famine, and war, human populations will double their size every 25 years. (An idea advanced by Thomas Robert Malthus)
The world’s population reached 1 billion for the first time in 1830. It took 120 years to double to 2 billion, and just 30 years to reach 3 billion. The world’s
population is now over 6 billion people.
Our increased means of subsistence is due to technology and a climate favorable for agriculture. Modern medicine, industrialized farming, and use of fossil fuel have reduced disease and famine. Furthermore, we’ve enjoyed an exceptionally mild climate period called the Holocene.
go read the rest
This is totally unrelated, but why is the EPA in bed with car dealers, and useless as teats on a boar in California?
Friday, January 04, 2008
Up and down week
I watched Ron Paul and Kennis Kucinich on Bill Moyers Journal and I smiled. I smiled again when I thought that my loved ones, who happen to have this thing for going to the hospital this week, are going to be ok.
Then I was horrified by a story that might be an honour killing in Texas.
What a waste. These girls were brilliant and beautiful.
Then I remembered that Texas leads the US in executions.
Heh.
Then I was horrified by a story that might be an honour killing in Texas.
What a waste. These girls were brilliant and beautiful.
Then I remembered that Texas leads the US in executions.
Heh.
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