The song here is okay, but the trail of destruction left by this plastic action figure made me laugh out loud. Enjoy.
I can’t believe that came from your mouth!
18
Mar
The song here is okay, but the trail of destruction left by this plastic action figure made me laugh out loud. Enjoy.
18
Mar
What we have here is a case of wack-a-doodle on wack-a-doodle crime but overall, society wins. Watch as this lefty woman gets hit with three cream pies laced with cayenne pepper and narrowly dodges a rubber chicken.
From a bemused SFGate here:
An ex-vegan who was hit with chili pepper-laced pies at an anarchist event in San Francisco said Tuesday that her assailants were cowards who should direct their herbivorous rage at the powerful – not at a fellow radical for writing a book denouncing animal-free diets.
Lierre Keith was attacked at the 15th annual Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair while discussing her 2009 book, “The Vegetarian Myth.” A 20-year vegan, Keith now argues that the diet is unhealthy and that agriculture is destroying the world.
As Keith stood at a lectern at the Hall of Flowers in Golden Gate Park, three people in masks and black hooded sweatshirts ran from backstage, shouted, “Go vegan!” and threw pies in her face. While they fled, some in the audience cheered or handed out leaflets.
Police are investigating the incident but have made no arrests. “We’re supposed to be against sadism and cruelty and domination, and these people were willing to do this to me,” Keith said.
Keith said her values are similar in most ways to those of her attackers. She believes in militant action, even property destruction, if it can lead to change. In her book, she said, she railed against factory farming and promoted the restoration of prairies and forests.
(Some Leftist) group said Keith was wrong about veganism, referred to her as an “animal holocaust denier,” and scolded her for calling the “agents of state oppression” – the police.
Keith said, “If this is what is considered radical action,” she said, “this movement is dead.”
What’s funnier? The limp-wristed throw of a rubber chicken or the fact that an anarchist had to call the cops? All I can do is say:
18
Mar
Can you imagine a world where no one is using carbon-based fossil fuels? A world where your crops are brought in using just the loving labor of human hands? Where only organic and sustainable crops are grown? Where you grow only enough food for yourselves, your labor force, and keep enough to sell for clothing and other modest needs? This is every Democrat and liberal’s fantasy. But we used to have a world like that in the American south circa 1840. It was a jobs program for American blacks where they lovingly tended to sustainable crops using eco-friendly methods with a very low carbon footprint.
Check out this new cockamaimey idea called “Urban Agriculturalism.” Or maybe its “Agricultural Urbanism.” Whatever, it involves creating steps of concrete inside a large public dwelling where people are forced to grow their own crops. They suggest things like beets and carrots.
They say at their site here:
We’re on a slow march of strip mining our resources so the question is, can a home benefit the community and in turn, the environment? Agricultural Urbanism is a proposed residential project that combines thousand year old terrance [sic] farming with modern construction.
And look at the thin white woman bending over her fluffy bunch of radishes! In fact all of the photos there show white people doing the farming. As if! Remember, this proposal is to convert an urban area to do this. Urban is code for “negro.” I dropped a comment on the site that says:
Awesome. Put this in a public-funded building and only black people will be living there. And then let’s see if these cute little pods can grow… cotton! Everyone needs cotton for clothing! It’s organic and I love the way it breathes!
And if those black people don’t want to work the soil that we the public have given them, then we will get some overseers in there to make sure they grow and pick that sustainable cotton! And if they start complaining about sores on their fingers or back problems, (cause bending down all day doing your own farming is hard on the back amiright? awesome you found a way to make dark skinned people do this work for us!) we will have those overseers remind those black people that they are living in our buildings for free or under heavy subsidization, and they need to pick that cotton! Sure, things might get violent, once or twice, but proper punitive instruction in front of the others will keep them in line.
Oh! Black people love to make wonderful urban music too! Imagine the wonderful songs this urban cotton picking might inspire! And the public will benefit that way too, because we can take those songs and sell them!
I love it how we white people are smarter than the working class. We get to design the best stuff and watch our dreams come to life in the form of forced black labor. I sure hope no one ever comes along and tells black people they don’t have to do work like this for free!
Pol Pot wanted all of his people to be sustainable farmers too. Thanks to Moonbattery.
17
Mar
When I was a kid in the 70’s psychics were freakin’ everywhere! On TV, in the newspapers, in the tabloids- supposedly they could do everything from bending spoons to solving kidnapping cases, which of course, always turned out to be a giant failure. Here is another psychic trying to convince people she has a gift.
17
Mar
Privacy wonks are in a tither because of a powerpoint presentation floating around showing Department of Justice agents how to mine information from peoples’ Facebook, Twitter and MySpace pages. Peoples’ buddies lists are private, so are their photos and videos they cry! Stupid liberal, if you post it on Facebook, it is no longer private if the public can see it. The Feds are allowed to use public information too!
From the AP here:
Maxi Sopo was having so much fun “living in paradise” in Mexico that he posted about it on Facebook so all his friends could follow his adventures. Others were watching, too: A federal prosecutor in Seattle, where Sopo was wanted on bank fraud charges.
Tracking Sopo through his public “friends” list, the prosecutor found his address and had Mexican authorities arrest him. Instead of sipping pina coladas, Sopo is awaiting extradition to the U.S.
Sopo learned the hard way: The Feds are on Facebook. And MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter, too.
Law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into popular social-networking services, even going undercover with false online profiles to communicate with suspects and gather private information, according to an internal Justice Department document that surfaced in a lawsuit.
The document shows that U.S. agents are logging on surreptitiously to exchange messages with suspects, identify a target’s friends or relatives and browse private information such as postings, personal photographs and video clips.
If you post stuff on the Internet in a public forum, that data is no longer private. And if the data resides on a server which you don’t own, it is no longer your data either. You want to keep your data private? Keep it on your own home PC in an encrypted format.
17
Mar
DHS had a whacky idea to ring the southern border with giant towers that would act as spotters to identify where and how many illegals were running across the border and would dispatch dudes with big butterfly nets to catch them. But when this 2 Billion dollar contract for a virtual fence almost doubled, it was scrapped.
From HotAir here:
“Not only do we have an obligation to secure our borders, we have a responsibility to do so in the most cost-effective way possible,” Napolitano said in a statement Tuesday. “The system of sensors and cameras along the Southwest border known as SBInet has been plagued with cost overruns and missed deadlines.”
With that in mind, Napolitano is withholding funding for the program’s first deployment until a review she ordered in January is finished. And she’s taking away $50 million in stimulus funds from the Boeing-managed program. Instead, that funding will be put toward “other tested, commercially available security technology along the Southwest border.”…
“But before we go across that border with this – these big towers, SBInet,” she added, “we are going to reevaluate how those technology dollars are used and whether there are other technologies perhaps that have been developed since SBInet was contracted that would be more mobile, better, easier to maintain and easier to operate.”
I said it before. Beartraps.
16
Mar
Encyclopedia Dramatica is a hilarious website that pokes fun at drama that is stirred up on the Internet. Often their humor is so coarse and simple it damn near reaches the status of truth. They are in hot water right now because a bunch of Aborigines were butthurt over their article on ED.
On the ED blog, site owner Joseph Evers says:
This is an initial investigation into charging me, personally, with the violation of Australia’s Racial Discrimination Act. While I act in complete compliance with both the civil and criminal codes of the United States of America, and am assured the right of free speech according to our Constitution (which, if not the greatest political document in the entire history of law, is certainly on the top five) I can personally be jailed and fined for the violation of this law.
This isn’t a far-fetched legal theory, they have used it before. Welcome to the one world government, folks. Is this what you wanted? Is this what you had in mind? Cause this is what you’re gettin’.
Encyclopedia Dramatica will never be censored in any way. We will keep publishing this content and our Australian users will be able to view it up until the point that your God-forsaken government blocks it with their soon-to-be-implemented secret list of banned material.
The article in question is here. Yeah, its racist, but parts of it are sadly truthful. For instance, it talks about all of the wonderful technology invented by the Aborigines over the past 50,000 years up to the point the white man arrived and showed them how to use the wheel:
A long stick. (spear)
A curved stick. (boomerang)
A hollow stick. (digeridoo)
Hey, that’s one more type of stick than our own American Aboriginal people had. Ours had a long stick (spear) and a curved stick (bow).
16
Mar
Not only are we going to read foreign terrorists rights granted only to Americans by our Constitution, we are now also supposed to read the miranda rights to dead terrorists too?
From the AP here:
Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress on Tuesday that Osama bin Laden will never face trial in the United States because he will not be captured alive.
In testy exchanges with House Republicans, the attorney general compared terrorists to mass murderer Charles Manson and predicted that events would ensure “we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden” not to the al-Qaida leader as a captive.
Holder sternly rejected criticism from GOP members of a House Appropriations subcommittee, who contend it is too dangerous to put terror suspects on trial in federal civilian courts as Holder has proposed.
The attorney general said it infuriates him to hear conservative critics complain that terrorists would get too many rights in the court system.
Terrorists in court “have the same rights that Charles Manson would have, any other kind of mass murderer,” the attorney general said.
How did this retard get his job? Since when do non-US citizens who engage in warfare get the same rights as Americans? And we are going to mirandize corpses now? Reading dead people their rights. Yep, that sums up the brains in this administration.
16
Mar
Disgusting Thai liberals poured gallons of human blood at the gates of their government today.
They lined up, and everyone donated a few vials, and they dumped it all into big bottles which they then dumped under the gates of the government. Gross. Hep and HIV, oh my. From the AP here:
Thai protesters poured several jugs of their own blood at the front gate of the government headquarters and outside the ruling party’s offices Tuesday in a symbolic sacrifice to press their demands for new elections.
Thousands of red-shirted demonstrators formed long lines to have their blood drawn by nurses, a day after their leaders vowed to collect 1 million cubic centimeters of blood - 264 gallons (1,000 liters) – to spill at Government House and other key locations.
A few teaspoons of blood were drawn from the veins of each volunteer and then transferred into dozens of large plastic water containers that were passed overhead through the crowd of cheering protesters before being delivered to Government House, the prime minister’s office. Riot police allowed protest leaders to approach the white iron front gate and pour out the blood, which oozed under the gate as national television broadcast the images live.
As many as 100,000 Red Shirt protesters converged Sunday on the Thai capital to demand that Abhisit agree to dissolve parliament by midday Monday. Abhisit refused and blanketed the capital with security, but said his government was open to listening to what else the protesters had to say.
The Red Shirts include supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and other activists who oppose the 2006 military coup that ousted him for alleged corruption and abuse of power.
Thaksin gave the country universal healthcare when he was in office and now all the nurses get together and draw blood from its citizens to throw at the new government? This is how you get dictators. Massive populist movement under the guise of democracy where the people will give their blood. Chilling!
16
Mar
Got to play some Golden Tee Golf with my brother tonight. He whooped me, but I got the YouTube Video as the consolation prize. Here I am on the Chinese course, hole 16, already 14 under par. I hit left of the moat to allow the wind to assist me, but I hit the 2 iron too hard on the second shot from the rough. Its a good thing that he cup is there to keep me from knocking the ball off the green!
16
Mar
But I’m not bitter. I’m still better looking than Sting. Thanks to Jess for this one.
15
Mar
For those that might not know, I am a professional network snoop. I read your emails, your facebook posts, and your instant messages via the magic of NetWitness. But lately I’ve noticed a trend in cyber-security that seems counter-intuitive to business, but may be good for security- and that is if you are monitoring network traffic, you should give your users MORE FREEDOM on the network, and not less. If you are a company and can afford the bandwidth, don’t block so much content. Don’t block social networking sites or blogs. And give your users Wi-Fi access so they can use their mobile devices. In fact, encourage it, even post the passwords in the break room. Why?
You catch much more exfiltration of corporate data via mobile devices. In the photo above is a whiteboard used by Google in 2006 for brainstorming. Much of these ideas pictured are goofy or tongue-in-cheek, but real information that is written on a whiteboard in your corporate office is just as important as data on a hard drive for information security. This photo was taken by an internal employee on a mobile phone and emailed out to his home and later published online.
Had the company been using an open wireless policy with full packet capture, the odds would be really good that this incident of emailing an attachment of this photo from a mobile device could have been captured and the wrong-doer punished or fired. I see it every day. Mobile photos of payroll spreadsheets captured when the boss walks away leaving his computer unlocked. Chemical formulas for biomeds on a whiteboard. Photos of packing slips taken in warehouses that depict private contents of packages. These things were captured by places that had the foresight of providing wireless to their user base, and in each case the photo was captured via transit over the network using a mobile device. Imagine how much of your corporate information goes unchecked over the networks of cellular carriers?
Walk around your office and look at the whiteboards of your engineers, developers and R&D team members. Now think how easy and how fast that could be posted to Facebook with a mobile camera. You really want to stay blind to that?
15
Mar
This is Old School Jet, and they show they’ve been rockin for a while.
15
Mar
People in the UK have had enough with global warming alarmism after having just emerged from one of the coldest winters in memory. When the Department of Energy and Climate Change (can you believe they have an agency like that??!) tried to create cutesey nursery rhyme ads that said everyone was going to die, a watchdog group objected and banned the advertisements.
From the Examiner here:
Scare tactic newspaper advertisements from Britain’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) have been banned by a government advertising watchdog agency. Two ads in a series which used child nursery rhymes to warn about the purported dangers of manmade climate change were found to have unsubstantiated claims in them.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) reviewed the ads after receiving more than 900 complaints from British citizens – the most complaints it received on any ad last year.
The two offending ads were based on the nursery rhymes of ‘Jack and Jill’ and ‘Rub a Dub Dub’ and warned of the effects of extreme weather, a claim which has long been disproven. In its conclusion, the ASA said the ads failed to meet code based on a lack of substantiation, truthfulness and their environmental claims.
So even if eco-religion was indeed real, these ads were still just scare mongering stupidity. So the Brits are trying to take a stand against global warming idiocy. Now if they can rename their energy and climate change department to just “energy department.”
14
Mar
No one wants to hire Lindsay Lohan anymore because they can’t afford the insurance to keep her on a project due to her erratic behavior and bad public image. So instead of earning a living acting, she is now trying to make her fortune by suing an online brokerage for a hundred million bucks.
From PopEater here:
You may not be taking Lindsay Lohan’s lawsuit over a talking baby ad very seriously, but E*Trade surely is. The online investment company issued a statement to PopEater Thursday slamming the star’s claims that the commercial exploits her image as “without merit” and promising a vigorous challenge to the litigation.
“While E*Trade doesn’t typically comment on pending litigation, we felt it appropriate given the high level of interest in the E*Trade Baby,” the statement reads. “We believe the claims are without merit and we intend to defend ourselves vigorously in this case.”
Lohan is suing for $100 million, insisting that the company’s commercial about a boyfriend-stealing, “milkaholic” baby — who happens to be named Lindsay — was modeled after her. The star’s lawyer went further, claiming Lohan has single-name recognition among the general public, and that by naming the baby “Lindsay,” E*Trade was “using that knowledge to profit.“
To self-absorbed Hollywood whore has-beens, even Superbowl commercials about talking babies are “all about you.”
13
Mar
I bet you didn’t know there was a formula, did you? The only thing missing from this is a voice-over narration by the Moley-One, Morgan Freeman.
Thanks to Hot Air!
13
Mar
Bald guy walks into a Pet store tired of a long cold Virginia Shenandoah Winter. He walks out with a new fuzzy hat.
From NVDaily here:
A town man has been charged with animal cruelty for skinning a guinea pig and making a head ornament out of it.
Charles Woodson, remains free on a $2,500 personal recognizance bond pending a March 23 return in Warren County General District Court. If convicted of the class 1 misdemeanor, Woodson faces a maximum punishment of 12 months in jail and a $2,500 fine.
Court records say that Woodson purchased the guinea pig from Noah’s Ark Pet & Aquarium store in Front Royal.
In a Wednesday telephone interview, police said it was important for authorities to act swiftly. “Our concern is that it would escalate and we don’t want the public to think it’s OK to purchase pets from a pet store and make clothing out of them,” she said.
Bolivians always shop in pet stores to make some good ol’ home made cuy. But a dude gets a chilly noggin and he goes to jail?
12
Mar
I have previously written about a heart surgeon who was taken in by a Nigerian Advance Fee Scam where he lost 300 Thousand bucks. Now the nation’s dumbest lawyer has been exposed on TV for giving away almost 200 Thousand bucks of his own money to someone who claimed they were in Hong Kong. Watch and laugh:
From HotAir here:
How did the scam work? The conspirators sent a forgeries of cashier’s checks for over $300,000, supposedly compensation from their creditors. They told Howell to deduct his fee, and then wire the rest back. Now, while attorneys do handle these kinds of transactions, usually they would work directly with attorneys representing the creditors, or the creditors themselves, in handling the cash. The kind of arrangement presented by Howell’s clients should have raised red flags immediately, and Howell should have contacted the supposed creditors to determine the legitimacy of the checks.
Howell wound up wiring over $180,000 back to the scammers before finding out that the checks were forgeries.
But his next move is another typical of lawyers. Instead of blaming his own dumbassery for buying the magic beans for 180K, he has sued Citibank because the ATM machine he used told him that his fake check had cleared.
Anyone who tries to send you more money than you ask for and requests for you to wire the remainder back is lying to you.
12
Mar
Johnny Depp hates the clowns. Just like me.
He is quoted here at Fox saying:
Johnny Depp Fears: Clowns
Clourophobia is no laughing matter to the movie star. “Something about the painted face, the fake smile,” Depp explains of what makes clowns so creepy. “There always seemed to be a darkness lurking just under the surface, a potential for real evil.”
Sean “Diddy” Combs is also said to suffer from clourophobia, but denies including a “no clown” clause in his performance contracts.
12
Mar
This is not a repeat of this story here about the EPA who ordered 40 Glock handguns. In this case, the Department of Education, who everyone assumes just writes schoolbooks or something, is ordering sawed-off shotguns, which are typically used in close-quarter combat when swat teams bust down doors, and the same bloggers, most of whom I enjoy, are a bit alarmed over the purchase.
The purchase request is here at the FBO site. Moonbattery has a post on it here. Rob Taylors awesome Red Alerts has it here, where he writes:
But short barrels are often used by military and law enforcement for entry teams who need small but powerful weapons for urban assaults and house to house fighting. If you were going to kick in the front door of an apartment and wanted to carry something with more knockdown power than a pistol (or a carbine chambered in a pistol caliber) but that would be easy to maneuver in the tight confines of a hallway or foyer, a short barreled shotgun fits the bill.
But why does the Department of Education need a shotgun seemingly designed for kicking in doors anyway?
The answer is that you must seriously consider what this Government Department has to do. They must enforce anti-fraud for one of the largest slushfunds of cash in Government. They give out more cash than just about any other organization and fraud and abuse if RIFE. And the Office of Inspectors General of Department of Education are deputized by the Justice Department under a 1978 Federal law that gives them the power to make arrests in cases dealing in their jurisdiction, namely, enforcing fraud in dealing with people stealing cash from the program.
Now think about this- Where do the largest amounts of money go, and therefore, where would the highest rates of fraud exist? In rural republican districts or heavily democrat inner city urban centers?
If you had to go after a bunch of community organizers who made off with 600K of funds in a dilapidated slum, wouldn’t you want a sawed off shotgun to do it?
Take a look at their reports. Most of these fraud cases happen in Democrat run cities.
I don’t blame my fellow right bloggers for being worried. But they live far enough outside of the beltway that they only perceive Washington as a gigantic faceless evil bureaucracy bent on the destruction of freedom. But I deal with these guys on a daily basis and they aren’t faceless to me. All of these agencies are staffed by my neighbors and most try to do a good job for the country. And battling fraud is a good thing.
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