Its been awhile since there was a Wisconsin crazy posting. This edition of the crazy comes to us from Green Bay where a man was on a crime spree of stealing snow plows. Bonus; he also was tazed.
http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2007/10/28/wi/02wi1028.txt
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Friday, November 09, 2007
Thursday, November 08, 2007
Another Big Fuckin Suprise
This is one of those things that is actually news of the situation being worse than previously known. However, noone will take any notice because everyone already assumed it was this bad. Basically, ATT was tapping EVERY FUCKING CALL, EMAIL, OR BIT OF INFORMATION you transmited over their lines.
Thats really fucking important!
The question being tossed around in the courts and the legislature is weather the government can tap calls involving foreigners because its pretty fucking clear that tapping the calls of a US citizen is illegal. But thats exactly what they have been doing.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2004001159_spying08.html?betterheadline
Thats really fucking important!
The question being tossed around in the courts and the legislature is weather the government can tap calls involving foreigners because its pretty fucking clear that tapping the calls of a US citizen is illegal. But thats exactly what they have been doing.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2004001159_spying08.html?betterheadline
That Sucking Noise
Apparently, the confluence of record oil prices, a financial fallout in our primary sector for economic growth for the past decade or so, and creeping inflation is too much for the U.S. Economy to bear. The main indicator of the turbulence, the poor dollar has in the past day tumbled to a new record low against the Euro, as well as for the most part falling back to pre-Clinton exchange rates against other world currencies, notably the Canadian dollar. The Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernake, one of the masterminds behind this rapid currency devaluation, has signaled that he expect the economy to slow for the rest of the year, and regain momentum in the beginning of 2008. What might be slightly worrisome is that he mentioned that they have not even calculated for even the possibility of a recession. The European Central Bank, for their part, are worried about the potential impact of cheap American exports on the world market, with Bush's new best friend Nicholas Sarkozy going so far as to mention the phrase "trade war." All of this makes me wish that the Fed still published statistics about the growth of money supply.
Oil, on the other hand, is not nearly as interesting, it only hit an amazing high just over $96 per barrel, as opposed to actually eclipsing the $100 price range. Between the price of oil being up 42% since August and "I think the market is due for a correction," I would say that we need to start car pooling more, or perhaps look into public transportation.
In other news, the primary builder for expensive homes in the U.S., Toll Brothers announced that their sales are going into tailspin, bringing up the question of whether the leg that is consumer spending is wobbling... Hopefully, it's only wobbling.
The New York Stock Exchange and most other world indices were pushed down today by poor results in the tech sector.
By far the most worrying aspect of all of this is the mention by Cheng Siwei, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and the other mastermind, that the American dollar is losing its status as a world currency.
I hope the managers at brokerages are telling their people to lay off the coke.
Oil, on the other hand, is not nearly as interesting, it only hit an amazing high just over $96 per barrel, as opposed to actually eclipsing the $100 price range. Between the price of oil being up 42% since August and "I think the market is due for a correction," I would say that we need to start car pooling more, or perhaps look into public transportation.
In other news, the primary builder for expensive homes in the U.S., Toll Brothers announced that their sales are going into tailspin, bringing up the question of whether the leg that is consumer spending is wobbling... Hopefully, it's only wobbling.
The New York Stock Exchange and most other world indices were pushed down today by poor results in the tech sector.
By far the most worrying aspect of all of this is the mention by Cheng Siwei, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and the other mastermind, that the American dollar is losing its status as a world currency.
I hope the managers at brokerages are telling their people to lay off the coke.
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
"A Papercut"
Consider this as indicative of the overall situation of the military, the war in Iraq, and the unfortunate enlisted volunteers.
Clearly, the military is almost desperate for people if they are speaking of individual soldiers and their skill sets as "investments." Not to say that every single soldier isn't expensive, but they are having problems recruiting and retaining people and those who have already suffered are suffering more "papercuts."
Around 700 people have gone through just Walter Reed to be treated for serious injuries involving the loss of a limb, not to mention thousands of others who have suffered severe burns and traumatic head injuries. The War in Iraq, due to the nature of the weapons involved has become one of the most brutal bloodbaths in history, and with each side continuously re-inventing the bomb, the death toll stands to climb higher. But, as some may say, the insurgents are fighting a guerrilla war, trying to best us through ten thousand papercuts.
Despite the fact that many of these injuries have cost these men and women their lives livelihoods, they are not especially cared for in the manner that most Americans would expect. The individual Army of One is not particularly significant in and of him or herself, indeed to the impersonal military bureaucracy that is the Department of Defense, their losses are only so many papercuts.
Clearly, the military is almost desperate for people if they are speaking of individual soldiers and their skill sets as "investments." Not to say that every single soldier isn't expensive, but they are having problems recruiting and retaining people and those who have already suffered are suffering more "papercuts."
Around 700 people have gone through just Walter Reed to be treated for serious injuries involving the loss of a limb, not to mention thousands of others who have suffered severe burns and traumatic head injuries. The War in Iraq, due to the nature of the weapons involved has become one of the most brutal bloodbaths in history, and with each side continuously re-inventing the bomb, the death toll stands to climb higher. But, as some may say, the insurgents are fighting a guerrilla war, trying to best us through ten thousand papercuts.
Despite the fact that many of these injuries have cost these men and women their lives livelihoods, they are not especially cared for in the manner that most Americans would expect. The individual Army of One is not particularly significant in and of him or herself, indeed to the impersonal military bureaucracy that is the Department of Defense, their losses are only so many papercuts.
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Music downloads don't hurt sales
http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/piracy-not-raiding-cd-sales/2007/11/06/1194118008817.html
Scients discovered that music sales are not hurt by music downloads. Perhaps it was the downturn in the economy. Or its just that mass produced, prepackaged crap that they pass off as music anymore isnt appealing because its so drab and derivative that noone can relate to it.
Scients discovered that music sales are not hurt by music downloads. Perhaps it was the downturn in the economy. Or its just that mass produced, prepackaged crap that they pass off as music anymore isnt appealing because its so drab and derivative that noone can relate to it.
Get to know Iran
Take a look at thees beautiful pictures of the country of Iran before our warmongering government decides to destroy that beauty and its people.
Salvation for sale by the 12 pack
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is asking for the financial records of a number of the nations largest televangalitical organizations, because (GASP!) something might be amiss. Something seems askew. Something ain't quite right here. I cant quite put my finger on it but perhaps these fabulously wealthy organizations that enjoy tax-exempt status seem a bit odd when the "ministers" are making six(6) figure salaries and driving a Roles Royce. (quite the fine automobile)
Some of you might be wondering why they are scrambling to comply voluntarily. It seems to me that this sounds like a voluntary request at this point and if one were misappropriating money from a tax-exempt organization and inclined to commit further crime, one could alter ones records to appear less damning, and thusly seem to be in compliance in hopes of avoiding an investigation by the IRS who may be more inclined to use police authority and warrents to get the information they require. Not that any of these just crusaders for the glory of Christ would even misuse the money in the first place, let alone lie about it to a duely elected member of congress.
http://blog.beliefnet.com/news/2007/11/george-osmond-patriarch-of-osm.php
Some of you might be wondering why they are scrambling to comply voluntarily. It seems to me that this sounds like a voluntary request at this point and if one were misappropriating money from a tax-exempt organization and inclined to commit further crime, one could alter ones records to appear less damning, and thusly seem to be in compliance in hopes of avoiding an investigation by the IRS who may be more inclined to use police authority and warrents to get the information they require. Not that any of these just crusaders for the glory of Christ would even misuse the money in the first place, let alone lie about it to a duely elected member of congress.
http://blog.beliefnet.com/news/2007/11/george-osmond-patriarch-of-osm.php
Monday, November 05, 2007
We are The Future
The information will be free, despite your best efforts to restrain, control, and oppress us. The balance has been shifted, and we are of equal strengths now. Scissors cutting paper, we can and are slowly tearing away at your ugly underside, muckracking and bringing your worst excesses into the light of day. The heavy hand of government is placed squarely on the back of our necks, like in the DMCA, but we can invent new media almost faster than you can catch up to it. Humanity will be integrated as a whole in a way that Gutenberg could never have comprehended. Despite your best efforts to divide us into disparate parts, unequal to your inertitude, always fighting each other.
You cannot control us, you will listen to us, the information is free.
You cannot control us, you will listen to us, the information is free.
Sunday, November 04, 2007
IT'S JUST A COLLECTION OF (TV) LINKS!!!!!!!!!
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/19/1846236
The brain of Bloated Nemesis has been blown like a Washington State Senator. This should be news to none, but for those who haven't gotten the candlestick in the library, I'll explain. See, the log cabin could be fertile ground for a legitimate anarchic society. One where there is no authority beyond the will of the masses, which could be more educated, learned and cultured than ever before. The speed, multiple media aspects, expansiveness, and relative ease of the log cabin are what people in this past millenium have been waiting for as an opportunity to truly change the world for the better.
The brain of Bloated Nemesis has been blown like a Washington State Senator. This should be news to none, but for those who haven't gotten the candlestick in the library, I'll explain. See, the log cabin could be fertile ground for a legitimate anarchic society. One where there is no authority beyond the will of the masses, which could be more educated, learned and cultured than ever before. The speed, multiple media aspects, expansiveness, and relative ease of the log cabin are what people in this past millenium have been waiting for as an opportunity to truly change the world for the better.
Since the end of the Dark Ages, with its heartless monarchies, massive divides of wealth, and illiterate populace, when the introduction of the printing press proved to be what they needed at that time to bring about a new age,( fucking literally!) smart folks have been waiting for the next printing press. The printing press , when looked at 20/20 maybe was not something that brought about a utopia, but the effect that it had on everything from everyday life to education to communication to governments etc. was dramatic, profound and good. Revolutions occurred, commerce increased and art and reason were at a premium. The log cabin is the next printing press. And maybe, if let be, it would not create an according to Hoyle utopia. The printing press certainly didn't do that (US magazine anyone?) but that's our own damn fault. The log cabin can be redemption, or at least a good time.
Yet...yet, the fucking man wants things to not change. Things will change, you can't prevent it. They mot change for the better, if the man had his way, but they will change, and I don't think the man realizes this. Whatever happened to idealism? And don't tell me it got blown away in November 1963. That was just the end of the old era of idealism, the log cabin should and fucking WILL BE the dawn of hope, optimism and love!
The Walk of Shame
Again, the most vocal moralisers turn out to be evildoers of the worst kind. Thats not fucking hyperboly; child molestation, and child prostitution are truely evil. If this guy is guilty he needs to face strenuous justice.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21611373/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21611373/
Saturday, November 03, 2007
Swept Under the Rug Saturday: Take a Cold Shower to Wash Away the Dirty
Against our advice and that of their own consciences, the Senate Judiciary Committee is poised to send the nomination of former Judge Michael Mukasey to the full Senate floor for a vote. I wish I could understand where they're going with this one. There are already concerns about the legal definitions of key terms, like "torture," "subpeona power," and "separation of powers," and placing another Bush Administration yes man in a key position like Attorney General is asking for more of the same. He has already gone on record to say that if the Congress were to attempt to enforce the subpeonas that it has already issued against the administration, that the Justice Department would not be obligated under the law to enforce those subpeonas. So who would be? The military? (This article mentions the legal limbo of CIA interrogators if anyone presses the torture thing.)
Anyway, the Judiciary Committee appears to have completely caved, mainly due to the "terrorist" threat again. Senators Schumer and Feinstein are trying, along with the other members of the committee who vote in favor of Mukasey to be added to our new list of Republicrats. I am beginning to think that instead of being worried of the potential ramifications if the broken clock is right again for the second time, but the implications of they themselves being designated terrorists and forced to endure that treatment. Bush is clearly in support of the part-time Guiliani campaign adviser, mentioning him in the first sentence of his weekly radio address.
Oh, and for the record, note the interesting wording of Guiliani's response in the first Republican debate. You know, when they're answering the rhetorical "terrorists are at Gitmo, and the DoD is worried about more attacks, what do you do?" question? Notice where Guiliani puts the "not" "I wouldn't tell them to torture" rather than "I would tell them not to torture."
Anyways, please contact the various members of the Judiciary Committee to voice your disapproval.
Some are pretty worked up over the torture issue, but I am far more worried about the subpeona issue.
Anyway, the Judiciary Committee appears to have completely caved, mainly due to the "terrorist" threat again. Senators Schumer and Feinstein are trying, along with the other members of the committee who vote in favor of Mukasey to be added to our new list of Republicrats. I am beginning to think that instead of being worried of the potential ramifications if the broken clock is right again for the second time, but the implications of they themselves being designated terrorists and forced to endure that treatment. Bush is clearly in support of the part-time Guiliani campaign adviser, mentioning him in the first sentence of his weekly radio address.
Oh, and for the record, note the interesting wording of Guiliani's response in the first Republican debate. You know, when they're answering the rhetorical "terrorists are at Gitmo, and the DoD is worried about more attacks, what do you do?" question? Notice where Guiliani puts the "not" "I wouldn't tell them to torture" rather than "I would tell them not to torture."
Anyways, please contact the various members of the Judiciary Committee to voice your disapproval.
Some are pretty worked up over the torture issue, but I am far more worried about the subpeona issue.
Rage for Breakfast
In a case of trying to have one's cake and eat it, too, the Bush Administration, through the Departments of Justice and State (re: more political interference in the federal bureaucracy) is pushing Congress to not adopt the Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act, which appears to be the brainchild of savedarfur.org . As loathesome as the conduct of the Bush Administration may be at times, this is by far the worst case of hypocricy and ineptitude that has been demonstrated thus far. I mean, it may not seem like the most pressing issue in the world to some, and I'm not going to touch upon the obvious question that this viewpoint raises. However, in this situation, even a little practical U.S. support in the form of even an AWACS or two tasked to administer a no-fly zone to support the UN Peacekeepers, could go a long way toward bringing about a sustainable resolution to the issue. Given the strong response that the crisis drew from the administration in the past, notably in the speeches of former Secretary of State Colin Powell and current Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, one would think that they might consider more than just their political backing. Which brings me to, perhaps, the most important question raised by this entire affair, just who is the administration protecting? Whose stock price stands to take a tumble after retirement funds and pension boards all over the country divest themselves of corporations doing business in the Sudan?
Rage is clinically proven to be a better stimulant than a morning cup of coffee.
Rage is clinically proven to be a better stimulant than a morning cup of coffee.
shorten your briefs
Myanmar: a new internet blackout, coupled with the expulsion of the UN Special Envoy, forbodes trouble. The opposition claims that it's strength is waxing, but the military has only begun to respond. Meanwhile, a look at the govt's recruiting efforts, the life of one of the youngest members of the country's elite and his life in singapore, and why his life is about to become much more complicated.
Ivory Coast: What some see as a tenuous peace process moves at a careful pace, while questions are raised about fattening war chests.
Zimbabwe: Under the strangely opaque lighting of continuing negotiations between the government ZANU-PF and the opposition MDC, the two parties have agreed to postpone elections to March of '08. Will these negotiations lead to resolution of the crisis facing Zimbabwe? I bet on no. Phillip Pasirayi also bets on no, though for slightly different reasons.
The Bomb: A resolution will be coming soon to a UN General Assembly near you, with the usual suspects already voting in their respective ways. The world powers dispatch their representatives to London to talk about Iran's bomb. The Bush administration is trying to bully the other permanent members of the UN Security Council for license to attack Iraq, er, Iran. Sorry, I had a moment of deja vu there. North Korea, meanwhile, might soon be rid of their bomb. Germany wants a piece of the potential pie that is the Indian Nuclear Deal, which PM Singh says is only delayed. And check out Hindustan Times' "Nuclear Deal Imbroglio" page.
Ivory Coast: What some see as a tenuous peace process moves at a careful pace, while questions are raised about fattening war chests.
Zimbabwe: Under the strangely opaque lighting of continuing negotiations between the government ZANU-PF and the opposition MDC, the two parties have agreed to postpone elections to March of '08. Will these negotiations lead to resolution of the crisis facing Zimbabwe? I bet on no. Phillip Pasirayi also bets on no, though for slightly different reasons.
The Bomb: A resolution will be coming soon to a UN General Assembly near you, with the usual suspects already voting in their respective ways. The world powers dispatch their representatives to London to talk about Iran's bomb. The Bush administration is trying to bully the other permanent members of the UN Security Council for license to attack Iraq, er, Iran. Sorry, I had a moment of deja vu there. North Korea, meanwhile, might soon be rid of their bomb. Germany wants a piece of the potential pie that is the Indian Nuclear Deal, which PM Singh says is only delayed. And check out Hindustan Times' "Nuclear Deal Imbroglio" page.
Friday, November 02, 2007
The Friday Bacon
I think I would rather risk the cancer.
Because its a sex drug
http://www2.sunjournal.com/html/babyfood/?storyid=235887&t=3
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Monday, October 29, 2007
Big Fucking Suprise
Blackwater mercenaries were given immunity then the Bureau chief that granted the immunity resigned. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071029/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/blackwater_prosecutions;_ylt=Any.9RWFPosL3cLI232zfLADW7oF
Free the West Memphis 3
New DNA evidence
http://blog.beliefnet.com/news/2007/10/evangelical-leaders-meet-with.php
The Website for the nonprofit org working to save the boys.
www.wm3.org
http://blog.beliefnet.com/news/2007/10/evangelical-leaders-meet-with.php
The Website for the nonprofit org working to save the boys.
www.wm3.org
The Sky is Falling
First, These people dont deserve a special meeting with the Secretary of State, anymore than a random grouping of 6 citizens, or worse 6 corporate execs. The heads of government should not be having listening sessions where they allow special religious intrests air their opinions on non-religous issues. I know they think its a religious issue but thats the problem. There are enough people in the administration that think they need to bring on the rapture and the end of the world. Remember, in these peoples minds the end of the world is a good thing. It gets them to God faster.
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