Poison Pillz

Must take a break from President Lam-o-crat. Cannot find desire to sort through the 30 qued posts regarding the tax cave.

So....

RIP Elizabeth Edwards. I saw her and John once on a North Carolina beach shaking hands and politicking before John was elected N.C. Senator. I voted for John in that election.

RIP Elizabeth. You were a damn good one.

Elizabeth Edwards Posts Apparent Goodbye Message - Political Hotsheet - CBS News

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Assange is a mixture of Bond and various Bond villains. Lovin' this guy and his work

We can handle the truth. Those trying to prevent us from learning the truth will not be able to handle us when we know the truth.

Julian Assange Vows "Poison Pill" Release Of Damaging Secrets If Arrested Or Killed | TPM LiveWire

Besides, our government is nothing but a self-fulfilling perpetual hypocrisy machine.

Freedom for me, but not for thee:

Flashback: Sec. Clinton hailed Internet freedom as tool to ‘spread truth and expose injustice’ | Raw Story:

"US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a public speech in January 2010 championing Internet freedom as a vital tool to open governments and promote transparency, while criticizing 'dictatorships' who seek to target those who use technology to expose their transgressions.

'In many respects, information has never been so free,' Clinton said at the Washington, D.C. Newseum. 'There are more ways to spread more ideas to more people than at any moment in history. Even in authoritarian countries, information networks are helping people discover new facts and making governments more accountable.'

'This challenge may be new, but our responsibility to help ensure the free exchange of ideas goes back to the birth of our republic,' she added, invoking the First Amendment to the US Constitution, which guarantees freedom of speech."

Dude is wicked smart, too. Obama should take some negotiation lessons from Assange.

Julian Assange Vows "Poison Pill" Release Of Damaging Secrets If Arrested Or Killed | TPM LiveWire

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Been done, but not to this extreme:

In the Name of Art, Wafaa Balil is a Walking Tripod - PCWorld:

"Iraqi-American Bilal, an assistant professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, has implanted a titanium plate into the back of his skull for the sake of his art. The plate allows Bilal to attach and remove a camera to the back of his head magnetically, for his project which is called 'The 3rd I.'"

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Ricky Bobby comes to mind for some reason.

Utah Pilot Survives Plane Crash In What Authorities Call 'A Miracle'

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Land of the Free-ish

OK. Sold.

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Pro-stripper, anti-religious freedom.

Poll: More Republicans Support Strip Club Over Mosque Near Ground Zero:

"Just four percent of Republican respondents said they support building a mosque two blocks from the site, whereas 21 percent said they would be fine with a strip club. Forty-nine percent of Democrats said they supported the mosque and 33 for the strip club. Among Independents, it was 34 percent for the mosque and 28 percent for the strip club."

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America. Land of the free-ish.

Student finds tracking device on his car; FBI demands it back | Raw Story

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Dude. Seriously.

Albert Mohler, Southern Baptist Leader, On Yoga: Not Christianity

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Imagine if the Tea Party Was Black

Yes, just imagine. Imagine the 24/7 hyperventilation of the FAUX 'news' borg.

Ephphatha Poetry: "Imagine if the Tea Party Was Black" - Tim Wise:

"Imagine that hundreds of black protesters were to descend upon Washington DC and Northern Virginia, just a few miles from the Capitol and White House, armed with AK-47s, assorted handguns, and ammunition. And imagine that some of these protesters —the black protesters — spoke of the need for political revolution, and possibly even armed conflict in the event that laws they didn’t like were enforced by the government? Would these protester — these black protesters with guns — be seen as brave defenders of the Second Amendment, or would they be viewed by most whites as a danger to the republic? What if they were Arab-Americans? Because, after all, that’s what happened recently when white gun enthusiasts descended upon the nation’s capital, arms in hand, and verbally announced their readiness to make war on the country’s political leaders if the need arose."

Plus:

Dem governor: Fox News outdid tea partiers in ‘marshalling anger’ | Raw Story

equals:

Armed man held after arrest as Obama leaves NC:

"His car was equipped with clear LED law enforcement-style strobe lights in the front and rear dash, Smith said. The car also had a mounted digital camera in the front window, four large antennas on the trunk lid, and under the steering wheel was a working siren box.

When McVey got out of the car, he was listening to a handheld scanner and radio that had a remote earpiece, Smith said. Police said he was monitoring local agencies and had formulas for rifle scopes on a note in his cup holder."

Times a million:

Not so much for lovers.

Think Progress � Virginia DMV Pulls License Plate Coded With Neo-Nazi Message From Truck With Anti-Islam Imagery

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Of course they did. The gulf coast has been destroyed.

How's the oily drilly nowy thingy workin' for ya, you betcha.

This is going to make the Valdez look like a coffee spill.

Big Oil Fought Off New Safety Rules Before Rig Disaster

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Something to keep in mind:

CBS Report: Copy Machines Retain Copies On Their Hard Drives | Crooks and Liars

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I've never understood this term 'premature ejaculation'. I 'ejaculate' precisely when I'm suppose to... always.

Priligy, First Pill To Stop Premature Ejaculation, Goes On Sale In UK

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Great product commercial:

The Best Apple Advertisement Yet - Stephen C. Webster - Brave New Hooks - True/Slant:

"Virginia Campbell, a 99-year-old resident of Mary’s Woods Retirement Community in Lake Oswego, Oregon, recently got an iPad. She says it has changed her life because it enabled her to read and write again. Now, there’s video."

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Mean, Mean Pride

Mean, mean stride.

Mr. 400 Million Hate Machine thinks our health care is top notch.

All the while he's treated by unionized nurses in one of the most progressive health states in the Union. Hell, the current health bill has exceptions for Hawaii b/c Hawaii's current health laws will remain more expansive further then the bill.

Rush, you are an epic asshole.

SEIU - Service Employees International Union - Hell Freezes Over: Rush Limbaugh Loves Union Hospitals and Socialized Medicine:

"Whether he realized it or not, Limbaugh was praising the care he received from union nurses in one of the country's most progressive health care systems. On behalf of the labor movement and health reform advocates everywhere, THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT, Rush!"

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This could be interesting.

Daily Kos: White House is investigating whether intel was intentionally withheld re: Flight 253 bomber -Update1:

"Wolffe was later on Rachel Maddow's show by telephone. His words were a bit calmer this time, but again he said that there is an investigation and that there is a question about whether or not the withholding of information was intentional. He said that there is a lot of finger pointing going on in intelligence community, that the president is really 'steamed' and that there is a line of inquiry that goes to the heart of why this wasn't shared. He and Rachel talked about how the intent may not necessarily be malicious, but may be more political."

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Stupid fucking headline. Try 'Iraq'. That's the one where we pissed away most of our cash.

But, still.....

US Spends Ten Times More On Afghanistan Than Airport Security

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Wingnut Welfare. Socialism at it finest.

19 years old.

Report: Bristol Palin may become a political consultant | Raw Story:

"MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has looked into online claims that Bristol Palin, the 19-year-old daughter of Sarah Palin, has launched a political PR and consultancy firm -- and has found the claims to be true."

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Energy can not be destroyed, so....

Robert Lanza, M.D.: Does Death Exist?: Life Is Forever, Says Theory:

"After Bugs gets blown up, there's a moment when you think he's dead. But the show always continues. Likewise, according to Biocentrism, consciousness can't be extinguished in a timeless, spaceless world. That's why you're here despite the preposterous odds against it. Bottom line: you may get flattened now and then, but life can't be stamped out.
.......

Remember, the silly rabbit never dies."

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Freaky

Untooned: Cartoon Characters In Real Life (PICTURES)

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Neat

YouTube - Space Shuttle Launch view from commercial flight!:

"On board Air Canada 981 bound to Toronto from Nassau we saw the launch of the shuttle"

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We Won

I'm liking this...

Obama to GOP: 'I won' - Jonathan Martin and Carol E. Lee - Politico.com:

"President Obama listened to Republican gripes about his stimulus package during a meeting with congressional leaders Friday morning - but he also left no doubt about who's in charge of these negotiations. 'I won,' Obama noted matter-of-factly, according to sources familiar with the conversation."

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....but whether the Dems can act like they 'won' is another issue entirely.

Amen, amen, amen to what Duncan writes:

Eschaton:

"Bipartisanship Sucks

I actually hope every Republican votes against the stimulus package, and I hope that instead of trying to please them the Obama team comes up with what they think the right package will be. The Republicans should lay out a competing vision, which won't pass because they aren't in charge. Then, 2 and 4 years from now voters can judge the results and if they aren't pretty they'll know who to blame and decide that the competing vision would have been a better one.

With bipartisanship you'll not only get a compromise that sucks, when it's time to throw the bums out no one will be quite sure which party should be blamed. Then what new candidates do is just run against some generic 'Washington.'

Democrats have the presidency and big majorities. Instead of hiding behind the spread-the-blame-around tactic, they should announce their vision and run with it."

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Great profile on Rhambo

Partisan, Playful and Profane, Obama Aide Tries to Hold It In:

"How will the feisty, bombastic and at times impulsive former congressman blend with the cool, collegial and deliberate culture of Obama World? And one that is trying to foster bipartisanship? This is someone who once wrote in Campaign and Elections magazine that “the untainted Republican has not yet been invented” and who two years ago — according to a book about Mr. Emanuel (“The Thumpin’ ” by Naftali Bendavid) — announced to his staff that Republicans are “bad people who deserve a two-by-four upside their heads.”"

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No would could ever of predicted.... oh, wait, yeah we did predict.

Former NSA Analyst: NSA ‘Monitored All Communications’ Of Americans, Targeted Journalists:

"Last night on MSNBC’s “Countdown with Keith Olbermann,” former analyst for the National Security Agency Russell Tice revealed that the NSA had collected “monitored all communications” of Americans and specifically targeted journalists."

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Sacrilege.

And Trader Joe's is the finest grocery store in existence.

Tax hike would put Chuck over its famed Two Bucks:

"Is this the end of Two Buck Chuck?

A proposal to raise the state tax on wine to a level more than six times higher to help close California's giant budget deficit would kill the $1.99 price for Charles Shaw wine, said Fred Franzia, who created the famous label sold by the Trader Joe's grocery chain."

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Cool.

NASA discovers evidence of possible 'life on Mars':

"WASHINGTON (AFP) – Plumes of methane gas detected on Mars could be a sign of geological or biological activity -- and possibly the latest indication that life can be sustained on the Red Planet, according to a study released Thursday."

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Via Shayne. Heart attack goodness... with pictures.

Bacon and Cheese Roll - FoodProof

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Joe the Gentile

The deification of Republican losers continues its methodical march.

On this episode we see tax dodging, medical bill paying deadbeat, McCain/V-PILF poster child, not really a plumber, not really named 'Joe', Joe the Fuckwad ascended into the plush Republican Welfare system as a 'war correspondent'..... yes, 'war correspondent' for the hacktackular conservative 'news organization' quote, quote, Pajamas TV.

Oy fucking vey.

I hate it when they so parody themselves that they make it hard for me to snark.

Joe is about a month away from a gig at FAUX News.

Joe the Plumber to become war correspondent:

"TOLEDO, Ohio – Joe The Plumber is putting down his wrenches and picking up a reporter's notebook.

The Ohio man who became a household name during the presidential campaign says he is heading to Israel as a war correspondent for the conservative Web site pjtv.com.

Samuel J. Wurzelbacher (WUR'-zuhl-bah-kur) says he'll spend 10 days covering the fighting.

He tells WNWO-TV in Toledo that he wants to let Israel's ''Average Joes' share their story.'"

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Douchebags til the end.

Reporter: Bush administration lying about Blair House booking

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And Joe further pisses me off by taking the top story on today's post because THIS is the top story of 2009 so far, IMO.

And make no mistake, porn is one of the largest industries in the U.S.... um, so I hear. Yeah.

Larry Flynt is a freaking genius. He'll push this thing till politicians from all walks have to comment publicly on it.

Porn Bailout: Larry Flynt, Joe Francis Seeking Government Money:

"With all this economic misery and people losing all that money, sex is the farthest thing from their mind,' Flynt says. 'It's time for Congress to rejuvenate the sexual appetite of America.'

Francis sees his industry like the big three automakers, only BIGGER: 'Congress seems willing to help shore up our nation's most important businesses; we feel we deserve the same consideration.'"

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Shitty Democrats.

Goal for the next couple of years: 1. Continue to kick Republican ass. 2. Rid the Democrats of the mushy fakers with primary battles and replace them with new, fresh progressives.

Bush-Enablers Feinstein and Rockefeller are running scared (UPDATED)

Ex-agent: Feinstein wrong, CIA needs an 'adult in charge'

You did all of Bush's bidding the past 8 years, Reid. You damn well better 'work for Obama'.

I will be donating to the Republican running against Reid in 2009. He needs to go and go fast. He's awful.

TheHill.com - Reid: ‘I don’t work for Obama’:

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Watch Wal-Mart spread like a cancer throughout the land.

Evil.

Watching the Growth of Walmart Across America

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This man's shrinkage is perfectly understandable.

Vail Chairlift Accident Leaves Man Dangling Pantless (PHOTOS)

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We don't need no stinkin' 4th Amendment!

Can we impeach now? This blows my mind.

Daily Kos: UPDATED x3: Mukasey's referenced pre-9/11 call in speech NOT IN 9/11 REPORT!:

"Mukasey's quote that they had known that a call coming from a safe house in Afghanistan to the United States made the hair on my neck stand on end, because if Mukasey wasn't lying or tripping over his own words - and according to Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann - he just admitted criminal malfeasance on the part of the administration for what happened on 9/11!"

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Thank you ACLU. Again. Mind. Blown.

Memo justified warrantless surveillance:

"WASHINGTON - For at least 16 months after the Sept. 11 terror attacks in 2001, the Bush administration believed that the Constitution's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures on U.S. soil didn't apply to its efforts to protect against terrorism."

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At first I thought this was an April Fools, but it turns out not so much. Hilarious. I love San Francisco.

SFist: Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco Formed to Honor George W. Bush:

"Looking to honor the forty-third President of the United States of America, George W. Bush, the recently formed Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco is looking to change the name of the Oceanside Wastewater Treatment Facility. It seems the group would like to rename the SF Zoo adjacent facility to the 'George W Bush Sewage Plant.'

Genius."

Here's the official website. Peaches Christ, Gender Illusionist, is on the board.

Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco

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Too little sex, Too much Jesus.

Eschaton:

"Nobody Could Have Predicted...

And on and on...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- A recent survey that found some Florida teens believe drinking a cap of bleach will prevent HIV and a shot of Mountain Dew will stop pregnancy has prompted lawmakers to push for an overhaul of sex education in the state.

The survey showed that Florida teens also believe that smoking marijuana will prevent a person from getting pregnant.

State lawmakers said the myths are spreading because of Florida's abstinence-only sex education, Local 6 reported."

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That's what I'm talking about!

Boy, 12, Kills Man Who Attacked His Mom:

"A 12-year-old boy fatally slashed a man who was attacking his mother at the boarding house where they lived, authorities said."

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Pour vu, Jenn:

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Drunk Girls

Not that this should matter one damn bit... but, unfortunately we WERE settled by the Puritans (damn my ancestors for not being criminal enough to be sent to Australia).

Official: NY Gov Caught on Wiretap:

"A law enforcement official has told The Associated Press that New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's involvement in a prostitution ring was caught on a federal wiretap.

However, the story hasn't fully been told. Spitzer's wife, Riskay Spitzer, was already suspicious of her husband so she asked if she could Smell His D*ck after he came home late one night, recently.

Moral of the story? Boys, always wash up before you come home to your hood rat wife. Oh, and always check for a federal wiretap when ordering a ho' on Craigslist.

'Cause, you know, the feds don't have anything bigger to worry about. Seriously, they don't know where the eff bin Laden is but they can tell you in a heart beat where a Democrat's dick has been.

Hullabaloo:

"Obviously Spitzer's in big trouble and is very likely to resign. When you build your career as a self righteous crusader, you don't get the benefit of the doubt on stuff like this. But there are questions that should be asked. It is unusual to release the names of johns and it's weird that we still don't know why the feds were wiretapping on some seemingly inconsequential prostitution case in the first place. Is that something the feds spend a lot of time doing these days?"

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Drunken History Lesson's (NSFW)



My favorite one:

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The best piece of performance art in the history of mankind. I 'highly' recommend enjoying some pie before you settle in to watch this one.

Awesomeness!

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Eat Shite and Live!

Please, Al, PLEASE!

Go sign the petition.

Al Gore's fans launch 2008 draft pitch:

"WASHINGTON - Draftgore.com, which describes itself as a group of grass-roots Democrats, underwrote a full-page open letter to Al Gore in Wednesday's New York Times, imploring the former vice president to enter the presidential campaign. ADVERTISEMENT The ad, which says 136,000 people have signed Draftgore's online petition, was published two days before this year's Nobel Peace Prize is expected to be announced. Gore has been nominated for the prize because of his campaign to bring attention to global warming."

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Credible on anything because why? It was leaked to FAUX News by the Bush administration. Nice.

Leak Severed a Link to Al-Qaeda's Secrets:

"A small private intelligence company that monitors Islamic terrorist groups obtained a new Osama bin Laden video ahead of its official release last month, and around 10 a.m. on Sept. 7, it notified the Bush administration of its secret acquisition. It gave two senior officials access on the condition that the officials not reveal they had it until the al-Qaeda release. Within 20 minutes, a range of intelligence agencies had begun downloading it from the company's Web site. By midafternoon that day, the video and a transcript of its audio track had been leaked from within the Bush administration to cable television news and broadcast worldwide."

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Hmmmm. Ahhhhh. Well, seems to be a pretty good point in this article.

Eat shit and Live!

Why Americans should eat more excrement.:

"The triumph of Western civilization is, first and foremost, a triumph of pipes and valves and the fact that water runs downhill. Aqueducts bring fresh water in, cobblestoned underground tunnels move used water out, and, presto, our world is clean.

But here is the problem: We have become victims of our own success. Ever wonder why your dog can gobble, lick, and gnaw all he wants along the glorious buffet of a city street and (almost) never get sick? Your dog is used to eating shit. Americans, on the other hand, grow up eating almost no shit at all."

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This is way cool:

New fire-retardant gel can save homes

HOT SPRINGS, S.D. - It was the most intense fire ever recorded in the Black Hills National Forest, but nearly all homes coated with a slimy gel were saved while dozens of houses nearby burned to the ground.

But the frustrating part:

Some firefighters say gel is not more widely used because it is still new, the firefighting industry can be slow to embrace new technology, and the backpack sprayers can be slow and unreliable at higher altitudes.

With this kind of success, why not buy in wholesale with the gel?

In the July wildfire that destroyed 33 homes near Hot Springs, a Black Hills tourist town, electrician and volunteer firefighter Gorden Sabo helped spray 27 homes with gel. Twenty-five of them withstood the blaze, he said.

One gelled home was destroyed because it was missing a garage door and the flames got inside, while the other home could not be saved because it started burning before it could be completely covered with gel, Sabo said.

John Nash, 63, was delighted to find that his house had been saved.

"I shook his hand," Nash said of Sabo. "I was pretty impressed. I lost everything except what he'd gelled — sheds, trucks, tractors. It was total wipeout except for the house."

Sabo has developed a $12,000-to-$20,000 gel system that can be attached to fire trucks and recently has begun to sell it to fire departments. (By comparison, a compressed-air foam system for a fire truck, which is what most fire departments use to protect homes, costs about $80,000.) The gel is made by such companies as Barricade International of Hobe Sound, Fla.

"Gel is a 21st-century tool. It has to become a mainstay of the fire service, and it's not yet," Waggoner said.

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Australia, Canada, New Zealand. My dream homes.

Vodka drip saves poisoned Italian:

"SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian doctors used an intravenous feed of vodka to keep an Italian tourist alive after he consumed large quantities of a poisonous substance."

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When the Well Runs Dry

Awful. Absolutely awful.

Infrastructure matters. Pumps and levees and bridges and powerlines..... all matter.

Only those who believe government can be a solution can fix our crumbling infrastructure.

Those who believe that government should be shrunk so small as to be able to drown it in a bath tub, well......

Terrible, terrible, terrible.

Police: More victims in submerged cars:

"MINNEAPOLIS - Divers searched the Mississippi River on Thursday for more bodies entombed in cars trapped beneath the twisted steel and concrete slabs of a collapsed bridge. As many as 30 people were missing as the rescue effort shifted to recovery."

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George Bush is funding the terrorist with weapons. And history repeats and repeats and repeats......

Danger Room - Wired Blogs:

"The Pentagon 'cannot ensure that U.S.-funded equipment has reached Iraqi security forces,' according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.

Not only did Multinational Security Transition Command-Iraq (MNSTC-I) fail to 'maintain a centralized record of all equipment distributed to Iraqi forces before December 2005.' But there's 'a discrepancy of at least 190,000 weapons between data reported by the former MNSTC-I commander and the property books,' too."

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More weapons incompetence.... or greed. It is one or the other. Pick your poison.

"--a plane flown only by Iran--"

Why don't we just hand deliver the schematics for a nuke to Iran.

GAO: Pentagon mistakenly sold F-14 parts:

"WASHINGTON - The Pentagon accidentally sold to the public more than a thousand aircraft parts that could be used on the F-14 fighter jet — a plane flown only by Iran — after saying it had halted such sales, government investigators say."

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With such appalling displays of incompetence and downright fucking evilness why would anyone trust a Conservative government to spy. Why would you trust them to only go after 'the bad guys'.

I promise you that the Bush Administration are using these 'surveillance activities' in ways that would make Nixon's break in look like play school.

I want my Constitution back. I want my country back.

Bush Administration's intelligence chief acknowledges 'series' of other 'secret surveillance activities':

"President Bush authorized a 'series of secret surveillance activities' by executive order after Sept. 11, 2001, according to a letter from Bush Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell to Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA).

The disclosure marks the first time 'that the administration has publicly acknowledged that Bush's order included undisclosed activities beyond the warrantless surveillance of e-mails and phone calls that Bush confirmed in December 2005,' according to the Washington Post."

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Uuuummmmmmm, errrrrrr, uhhhhhhh, hmmmmmm.

D'errrrrrrrrr.

YouTube - Libertyville Abortion Demonstration

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Things to do today:

1. Put on kevlar
2. Ask for raise
3. Duck

Police: Boss kills workers who asked for raise:

"EAST POINT, Georgia (AP) -- The owner of a car dealership has been accused of killing two employees because they kept asking for pay raises."

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Hell, let him drive. He's probably better than 75% of the people with 2 arms and legs that are currently on the road.

Facing prison, armless driver turns in his keys:

"LAND O' LAKES, Fla. -- There was a time when nothing could keep Michael Francis Wiley from behind the wheel -- not even a triple amputation that makes simple tasks like tying a shoe impossible.

Even police, who busted Wiley so many times that it's now a felony for him to drive, couldn't stop him."

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