This clown sent a letter to the IRS daring them to do anything to him. That is the same thing Wesley Snipes did, though the nature of the challenge is rather different. Now the feds are determining which correctional center they will slot Snipes into.
Martha Stewart tried lying to the feds about some stock sales she made and she also was treated to a stay at the gray bar hotel. Now she can't enter Britain because of her conviction. That's freaking hilarious!
Obama raised $21.9 million in May. McCain? Not so much. Is he really going to accept public financing for his campaign? It could be that the problem is because McCain hasn't been able to make up his mind as to what to do about our energy crisis. In fact, the Gropenfuhrer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, just dissed McCain's rationale for coastal drilling. The rejection of public funding will not hurt Obama.
McCain may name Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty (yeah, I know, who?) as his VP. But he isn't exactly going to energize the GOP base that is unhappy with the Republican top of the ticket.
Also, did McCain lie to either Hispanic leaders or Republican anti-immigration activists? Or both?
McCain can't finesse this number: 500 Californians dead in the Iraq War. Stay the course is not going to work there.
You might also be able to kiss another Republican blowhard off soon. Red Sox righthander Curt Schilling is going to have possible career ending shoulder surgery. Schilling was a major stud on the hill, but also a colossal asshole off of it. He once told Sports Illustrated that he hated it that pllayers were using steroids and then when a Congressional committee asked him about it, he ballessly demurred.
Some of you religious fucks are scary.
Republicans admit that new Orange County, CA sheriff is qualified for her job, but they are grousing about her selection anyway.
Firefox 3.0 tally to date: 14 million and counting.
You want something that will piss you off? You know that U.S. consumers are paying 3-4 times what the Japanese and the Koreans are for broadband access even though theirs is faster? That's what happens when you have a lack of competition ina given sector.
Pro Gay marriage folks in California are now pressing the courts there to head off a bigoted voter initiatve. I hope it succeeds.
Meanwhile, religious nuts refuse to do their taxpayer funded jobs when it comes to the same sex marriage issue.
Idiot of the day right here.
Also mentallly underpowered are those who got sucked into the "clean coal" hoax.
If you've ever seen the tv series Futurama, there was a joke in one of the episodes that went, "its some kind of hollow tube, devoid of human life. Gasp. The Los Angeles Subway." Well, that isn't true now with sky high gas prices. Check it out.
Two Republican sex predators (yes, their dad is connected to the party) just got out in the OC. So watch out for 'em.
I don't understand how you can use your employer's network and yet demand that they have to respect your privacy when you do. But a California court said that an employee has to give permission before your boss can see your correspondence on the job. This is absurd.
UCLA's hospital has been doing transplants on Japanese gangsters. I'm not kidding. This is fucking outrageous.
In the "It's About Time" file is this.
You may remember that Democratic congresswoman who had her home foreclosed recently. She was also in arrears of her property taxes. Now the state has taken the home away from the new buyer without compensation and given it back to her even though he had already begun renovating the place. Outrageous.
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Friday, June 20, 2008
Thursday, June 19, 2008
More Missteps for McCain; Huffington Post Remembers Russert With Censorship
Talk about too little too late. The feds conducted massive arrests on many of the scam artists that helped make the current mortgage crisis possible. I wonder how many of the Bush will pardon. In any event, this should have happened years ago, but the Chimperor's see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil approach prevented that from happening.
One enabler for the dire state of housing these days is Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, who has done a 180 and now wants new federal powers to regulate Wall Street. Another tacit rebuke of neocon-onomics.
Then there is this disturbing little freudian slip by GOP congressman Mark Kirk.
The Republicans are missing their fundraising targets by a big margin because of the dissatisfaction with McCain and Bush and now, unlike past campaigns, the Democrats will enjoy up to a 3-1 financial advantage in the general election. Sweet.
McCain backing off on drilling for oil in the Arctic wildlife refuge won't make too may of his corporate masters happy, either. This guy flip flops more than Ratfucker Romney and that is saying something.
Certainly, he can now write California off. He had hoped to be able to appeal to enough independents in California to carve out a victory there, but his calling for coastal drilling has cashiered that. Florida undercover gay Governor Charlie Crist, who had also been against exploration off of his state's coast, is now for it, cynically referring to it as a states rights issue.
Huh? Florida has no rights in this decision other than to have its voters throw the presidential administration out of office that drills there. This may have cost McCain that state, too. Obama, according to most polls, is leading in all the swing states right now. Only the Rev. Moon-backed Rassmussen Poll has him losing one of those states.
Even Jeb Bush was against drilling in Fklorida waters.
Perhaps as a hail mary to get on the goodside of MSNBC, which is owned by nuclear plant contractor General Electric, McCain has called for building 45 nuclear plants. Or as I call them, 45 new delicious terrorist targets. And that is before you get to nuclear waste disposition issues and potential safety problems. They also aren't very economical. I'm all for building more power plants, especially gas fired ones, but you don't use uranium, whose radiation is poisonous for about 350,000 years, to boil water, which is what a nuke plant does.
McCain's cartoon turtle-like economic adviser, Phil Gramm, gets his main paycheck these days from Swiss bank UBS AG. This can't help McCain's electoral chances.
It also appears that the Republicans are going to try to demonize Michelle Obama during the campaign. Huffington Post writer Stephen Elliott responded by musing on Cindy McCain's drug problem.
However, that doesn't matter to the yellow elephants. They take their marching orders from another druggie, Rush Limbaugh. So Cindy is just par for the Republican course.
Speaking of Cindy McCain, there was another Huffpo piece on her giving John McCain free transportation on her private jet. I wrote a response that as much as I don't care for the old geezer, the fact remains that John is Cindy's spouse and that this doesn't have the same scent of public corruption that other free excursions provided by corporate lobbyists to elected officials have. The Huffpo moderators censored that and instead printed missives all condemning the McCains for this. Kind of intellectually dishonest, no?
The Huffpo folks also continue to churn out drooling tributes to the late Tim Russert. The readership of the site is becoming fed up with it. While moderators have let through occasional condemnations of the potato headed Sunday talker, they are currently heavily censoring anything that contains really strong attacks of either the ongoing eulogies or Russert himself. Again, media royalism at its worst.
Any minute now, I expect Arianna Huffington to issue a fawning piece talking about how tasty Russert's semen was when she gave him a hummer in a beltway bathroom. She wil call it the milk of human kindness and devotion, or some other such blather.
And again, what are these pundits going to do when a real giant, Mike Wallace, finally grabs some eternal rest? Demand they put his face on Mt. Rushmore? Have a monument erected to him in D.C.? The bloviating classes have really put themselves out on a ledge here to the point of parody.
CBS' Lara Logan, not exactly your Phd candidate, lamented the less than substantive coverage of the Iraq war. Give her a tardy and put her in detention. It is one thing to say that now, but she obviously didn't have the guts to do so two years ago. So she is still just another media coward trying to do a fast song and dance to redeem herself.
Is corrupt Alaska congressman Don Young a politician or a leader of a religious cult? Jesus Q. Christ!
Is this the British government's attempt to pull a Mossadegh coup-type action on Equatorial Guinea? Especially since Margaret Thatcher's son Mark is involved in this.
Is Europe finally getting a clue on illegal immigration? This was a MAJOR issue (along with the Iraq war) in Britian that helped sweep the Tories into power.
In the wake of the download frenzy for Firefox the other day comes news that someone has already found a security hole in it. It still beats the hell out of Internet Explorer, though.
A lot of people are confused about what global warming entails. Many think it means that they will wake up one day and it will be 150 degrees outside. What the actual ramifications are concern the creation of more severe weather episodes and the shifting of climatic zones.
There is already a rise in global sea levels due to eroding cie fields in Greenland and the poles, causing many so-called "barrier islands" along the east coast of the U.S. to now be submerged. Those islands had acted as a brake on hurricane intensity, but now that they aren't there you could see far more severe storm surges than in the past inundating cities such as Miami and even Washington D.C., where flood waters could be licking at the White House grounds at some point.
That is due to the fact that the Potomac empties out into a bay, which leads to a one foot increase in river level for each foot of higher tide in the ocean. Washington D.C. was once largely a big marsh and diseases such as malaria weren't unknown there.
In hot water himself right now is a teenager in tony Coto de Caza in Orange County, California who not only hacked into his school's computers to change his grades, but he also conducted break ins to plant malware on school computers. He faces up to 38 years in jail, though he will probably get less than a year. I would like to see him get a nickel (five years) because this is a bad kid and you can't allow this kind of behavior to pass without firm legal punishment.
Unfortunately, too many people seem willing to cut this asshole a break, some recommending as little as community service and even companies hiring him for his hacking skills. Yeah, that makes sense for someone accused of identity theft, burglary, etc. Had this kid been, say, 25, the sympathy would have been non-existent. That's ridiculous. Fuck this retard.
He'll probably be hired as a Republican operative, though. He has the background for it. Amoral slimebag who has some dough.
Or how about some fucked retards? I mean, WTF?
Now where did we put those nuclear weapons parts? Oops, I can't remember! Now just why did you guys vote for Bush on national security issues?
I'm glad that Boeing is getting another shot at supplying tankers to the U.S. Air Force over Airbus, but Americans, unfortunately, both benefit and get hurt in that deal.
South Korea and Japan enjoy internet connection speeds far in excess of what you can get through ur monopolistic cable and telecom firms in the U.S. Well, that may change, but it is kinda late in the game and the Koreans and Japanese pay cheaper rates despite strong currencies.
And is Japan poised to blow Detroit up with its new hydrogen fuel cell cars? We'll see.
Also, here is an interesting way to think about car mileage.
If you're enough of an idiot to use HGH to boost your athletic performance, well, swing and a miss if this report is correct.
As I type this, I am watching an absolutely stellar series on the History Channel on the battle of Thermoplaye. You know, they one they made the move 300 about. If they repeat it, don't miss it. Just terrific.
One enabler for the dire state of housing these days is Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, who has done a 180 and now wants new federal powers to regulate Wall Street. Another tacit rebuke of neocon-onomics.
Then there is this disturbing little freudian slip by GOP congressman Mark Kirk.
The Republicans are missing their fundraising targets by a big margin because of the dissatisfaction with McCain and Bush and now, unlike past campaigns, the Democrats will enjoy up to a 3-1 financial advantage in the general election. Sweet.
McCain backing off on drilling for oil in the Arctic wildlife refuge won't make too may of his corporate masters happy, either. This guy flip flops more than Ratfucker Romney and that is saying something.
Certainly, he can now write California off. He had hoped to be able to appeal to enough independents in California to carve out a victory there, but his calling for coastal drilling has cashiered that. Florida undercover gay Governor Charlie Crist, who had also been against exploration off of his state's coast, is now for it, cynically referring to it as a states rights issue.
Huh? Florida has no rights in this decision other than to have its voters throw the presidential administration out of office that drills there. This may have cost McCain that state, too. Obama, according to most polls, is leading in all the swing states right now. Only the Rev. Moon-backed Rassmussen Poll has him losing one of those states.
Even Jeb Bush was against drilling in Fklorida waters.
Perhaps as a hail mary to get on the goodside of MSNBC, which is owned by nuclear plant contractor General Electric, McCain has called for building 45 nuclear plants. Or as I call them, 45 new delicious terrorist targets. And that is before you get to nuclear waste disposition issues and potential safety problems. They also aren't very economical. I'm all for building more power plants, especially gas fired ones, but you don't use uranium, whose radiation is poisonous for about 350,000 years, to boil water, which is what a nuke plant does.
McCain's cartoon turtle-like economic adviser, Phil Gramm, gets his main paycheck these days from Swiss bank UBS AG. This can't help McCain's electoral chances.
It also appears that the Republicans are going to try to demonize Michelle Obama during the campaign. Huffington Post writer Stephen Elliott responded by musing on Cindy McCain's drug problem.
However, that doesn't matter to the yellow elephants. They take their marching orders from another druggie, Rush Limbaugh. So Cindy is just par for the Republican course.
Speaking of Cindy McCain, there was another Huffpo piece on her giving John McCain free transportation on her private jet. I wrote a response that as much as I don't care for the old geezer, the fact remains that John is Cindy's spouse and that this doesn't have the same scent of public corruption that other free excursions provided by corporate lobbyists to elected officials have. The Huffpo moderators censored that and instead printed missives all condemning the McCains for this. Kind of intellectually dishonest, no?
The Huffpo folks also continue to churn out drooling tributes to the late Tim Russert. The readership of the site is becoming fed up with it. While moderators have let through occasional condemnations of the potato headed Sunday talker, they are currently heavily censoring anything that contains really strong attacks of either the ongoing eulogies or Russert himself. Again, media royalism at its worst.
Any minute now, I expect Arianna Huffington to issue a fawning piece talking about how tasty Russert's semen was when she gave him a hummer in a beltway bathroom. She wil call it the milk of human kindness and devotion, or some other such blather.
And again, what are these pundits going to do when a real giant, Mike Wallace, finally grabs some eternal rest? Demand they put his face on Mt. Rushmore? Have a monument erected to him in D.C.? The bloviating classes have really put themselves out on a ledge here to the point of parody.
CBS' Lara Logan, not exactly your Phd candidate, lamented the less than substantive coverage of the Iraq war. Give her a tardy and put her in detention. It is one thing to say that now, but she obviously didn't have the guts to do so two years ago. So she is still just another media coward trying to do a fast song and dance to redeem herself.
Is corrupt Alaska congressman Don Young a politician or a leader of a religious cult? Jesus Q. Christ!
Is this the British government's attempt to pull a Mossadegh coup-type action on Equatorial Guinea? Especially since Margaret Thatcher's son Mark is involved in this.
Is Europe finally getting a clue on illegal immigration? This was a MAJOR issue (along with the Iraq war) in Britian that helped sweep the Tories into power.
In the wake of the download frenzy for Firefox the other day comes news that someone has already found a security hole in it. It still beats the hell out of Internet Explorer, though.
A lot of people are confused about what global warming entails. Many think it means that they will wake up one day and it will be 150 degrees outside. What the actual ramifications are concern the creation of more severe weather episodes and the shifting of climatic zones.
There is already a rise in global sea levels due to eroding cie fields in Greenland and the poles, causing many so-called "barrier islands" along the east coast of the U.S. to now be submerged. Those islands had acted as a brake on hurricane intensity, but now that they aren't there you could see far more severe storm surges than in the past inundating cities such as Miami and even Washington D.C., where flood waters could be licking at the White House grounds at some point.
That is due to the fact that the Potomac empties out into a bay, which leads to a one foot increase in river level for each foot of higher tide in the ocean. Washington D.C. was once largely a big marsh and diseases such as malaria weren't unknown there.
In hot water himself right now is a teenager in tony Coto de Caza in Orange County, California who not only hacked into his school's computers to change his grades, but he also conducted break ins to plant malware on school computers. He faces up to 38 years in jail, though he will probably get less than a year. I would like to see him get a nickel (five years) because this is a bad kid and you can't allow this kind of behavior to pass without firm legal punishment.
Unfortunately, too many people seem willing to cut this asshole a break, some recommending as little as community service and even companies hiring him for his hacking skills. Yeah, that makes sense for someone accused of identity theft, burglary, etc. Had this kid been, say, 25, the sympathy would have been non-existent. That's ridiculous. Fuck this retard.
He'll probably be hired as a Republican operative, though. He has the background for it. Amoral slimebag who has some dough.
Or how about some fucked retards? I mean, WTF?
Now where did we put those nuclear weapons parts? Oops, I can't remember! Now just why did you guys vote for Bush on national security issues?
I'm glad that Boeing is getting another shot at supplying tankers to the U.S. Air Force over Airbus, but Americans, unfortunately, both benefit and get hurt in that deal.
South Korea and Japan enjoy internet connection speeds far in excess of what you can get through ur monopolistic cable and telecom firms in the U.S. Well, that may change, but it is kinda late in the game and the Koreans and Japanese pay cheaper rates despite strong currencies.
And is Japan poised to blow Detroit up with its new hydrogen fuel cell cars? We'll see.
Also, here is an interesting way to think about car mileage.
If you're enough of an idiot to use HGH to boost your athletic performance, well, swing and a miss if this report is correct.
As I type this, I am watching an absolutely stellar series on the History Channel on the battle of Thermoplaye. You know, they one they made the move 300 about. If they repeat it, don't miss it. Just terrific.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Random Stuff
It's Firefox Day! Get her downloaded!
The Iowa disaster has been going on for days and Bush is going to wait until Thursday to survey the scene? What in God's name is he doing right now that prevents him from showing up at this economic, human and environmental disaster? Just more callousness from the Bush junta.
And now Mississippi may have massive flooding problems of its own. Fortunately for the GOP, it appears that its policy of infrastructural neglect wasn't the cause here, just a one in 500 years weather event.
Meanwhile, Bush cronies KBR still raping the treasury and they even got a government official who tried to stave some of this theft off fired.
And even as KBR is hindering our effort in Iraq, the Taliban appears poised for an offensive on the outskirts of Kandahar. Now what was it Laura Bush, who is looking so empty eyed these days she might as well be following a nutty religious cult, saif that things were going oh so peachy in a region we should have taken care of first before even considering any action elsewhere. But that makes too much sense and Turbo has none.
I don't know why I have to do this, but it bears reminding you that with all the talk of a possible strike against Iran, that also comes complete with Russians because the Putin regime has extensive dealings with the Persians and Russia has traditionally considered Iran within its sphere of influence. But you will hear nothing about that in the mainstream media because they are too busy being Bush"s pissboys.
Government corruption got a big thumbs up from an appeals court when a former Republican official's conviction in the Jack Abramoff case was set aside on a technicality. Where is the GOP outrage over this judge subverting a jury's decision? *lol
It's deja vu! Stagflation during a Republican administration!
On the other side of the aisle, a former Democratic state legislator and church pastor was convicted of fraud. I thought that being explosed to the good book was supposed to make people refrain from stuff like this. I am shocked *lol.
Then you had a case of cronyism in Baltimore, where mayor Sheila Dixon, an African-American Obama supporter, btw, is being investigated by the feds for possible illegal use of city money. So corruption just isn't for Republicans anymore.
You gotta love Texas. Or not.
The business media cracks me up sometimes. In this piece, they slam CNN host Lou Dobbs for "scaremongering" on the salmonella tomato issue after he raked Bush and his FDA over the coals for helping to make it possible. However, even though this outfit complains about what Dobbs said, they stop short of propounding that his statements were untrue. Plus this tends to back Dobbs up.
Nice try guys.
The Iowa disaster has been going on for days and Bush is going to wait until Thursday to survey the scene? What in God's name is he doing right now that prevents him from showing up at this economic, human and environmental disaster? Just more callousness from the Bush junta.
And now Mississippi may have massive flooding problems of its own. Fortunately for the GOP, it appears that its policy of infrastructural neglect wasn't the cause here, just a one in 500 years weather event.
Meanwhile, Bush cronies KBR still raping the treasury and they even got a government official who tried to stave some of this theft off fired.
And even as KBR is hindering our effort in Iraq, the Taliban appears poised for an offensive on the outskirts of Kandahar. Now what was it Laura Bush, who is looking so empty eyed these days she might as well be following a nutty religious cult, saif that things were going oh so peachy in a region we should have taken care of first before even considering any action elsewhere. But that makes too much sense and Turbo has none.
I don't know why I have to do this, but it bears reminding you that with all the talk of a possible strike against Iran, that also comes complete with Russians because the Putin regime has extensive dealings with the Persians and Russia has traditionally considered Iran within its sphere of influence. But you will hear nothing about that in the mainstream media because they are too busy being Bush"s pissboys.
Government corruption got a big thumbs up from an appeals court when a former Republican official's conviction in the Jack Abramoff case was set aside on a technicality. Where is the GOP outrage over this judge subverting a jury's decision? *lol
It's deja vu! Stagflation during a Republican administration!
On the other side of the aisle, a former Democratic state legislator and church pastor was convicted of fraud. I thought that being explosed to the good book was supposed to make people refrain from stuff like this. I am shocked *lol.
Then you had a case of cronyism in Baltimore, where mayor Sheila Dixon, an African-American Obama supporter, btw, is being investigated by the feds for possible illegal use of city money. So corruption just isn't for Republicans anymore.
You gotta love Texas. Or not.
The business media cracks me up sometimes. In this piece, they slam CNN host Lou Dobbs for "scaremongering" on the salmonella tomato issue after he raked Bush and his FDA over the coals for helping to make it possible. However, even though this outfit complains about what Dobbs said, they stop short of propounding that his statements were untrue. Plus this tends to back Dobbs up.
Nice try guys.
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