I was asked by a guy at my local today whether Obama would be shot in office while we watched the PSV-Ajax match. Some of the things I thought to tell the Dutchman were well covered by the following writer. Reading it made me feel better. I was also admittedly a little freaked … when I realized such shit is still conceived, if even in the most depraved of minds. At the very least, 50 odd years on, there aren’t as many lynchings in the south.
In light of Sonrisas’ threat to shut us down I offer this from the Independent. It’s about the brain-trust that remains in the hands of the American White Supremacy movement. Briefly, it’s about the neo-Nazi and KKK morons who have gotten busted drunk driving with an arsenal of weapons in their truck while on their way to buy more Actifed at the Walgreens days before they were to Kill the World’s Most Powerful Black Man.
yes, yes. getting on the bandwagon of change. this blog will change going forward. i’m about to lock everyone else out from writing entries because it didn’t proceed as i expected. i may or may not continue but think i will. i’ve had a big change in my life and the US has had a big change in perception which is good. i know the arguments against getting too excited about our recent election and live and breath many of them but i also understand the macro effect and it is important. one can argue that the collective hand of power is directing things but when hasn’t it been? i feel great and it’s better to ride that feeling than it is to sabotage it. Let’s all embrace reality and lend a helping hand. That alone will change America.
I reckon I’ve been accused of being very biased in my opinions of Bush and Cheney. I’d agree in that I’m biased that I’m right and they’re wrong…regarding just about everything. And I’d say seeing all their policies in action and the state of these United States should put to rest any idea that they give a shit about anything other than the ruling class and massaging the military-industrial-congressional complex as so eloquently expressed by President Eisenhower. John McCain doesn’t know that Bush / Cheney are so wrong as proven by his demographic vice presidential choice of Sarah Palin (she’s a woman and evangelical and can field dress a moose). His choice also shows how highly he thinks of the American female intellect. He thought that just by choosing a woman for his VP candidate would mean his ticket would capture the female vote. I really don’t have to say much more because the two clips below speak VOLUMES. No one said it was easy to run for president / vice president and there’s a reason for it. This particular woman has no business in the white house.
Bumped into something tonight that is definitely worth checking out. It’s well done and not without a cool factor. Dig on the excerpt below…it’s the funniest bit yet, and also conveys much of what they’re aiming to do in terms of making some waves in browser land. I spotted a headline (but did not read) in the NYTimes today that Google was launchin’ a browser, and then caught this “google book” via stumbleupon.
By coincidence, not an hour before, I had finally accepted Mozilla’s offer to switch to Firefox 3.x. I had just set up my new ‘Pimpzilla’ theme after install when I find myself reading about “Chrome”. A browser kinda Tuesday night..
Not sure what your browsing habits are like, but this guy wigging out over the slow takeover of his PC after a long day of browsing is someone I can relate very well to. The performance related issues are the main reason I want a new browser. This 3.x is supposed to address Firefox’s memory hog tendencies, but I do not know the basic method it is using. This google approach seems clean, but also obvious enough that there must be significant drawbacks. Either way, I doubt the Mozilla folks managed to explain it quite this progressively and effectively at the dumbed down level. Nice to have resources…doesn’t Google seed tons of ‘go create something’ type projects all over the organization? Everything including gmail is still in “beta” so they’re never static and thinking about stopping where they are at to control the market and set up an innovation stifling/Microsoft-like revenue model. They’re still fuckers, but I can’t resist their shit at this stage in the game. They get some things right. China wasn’t one of them.
Anyway, change is constant….I’ll try out both for awhile, and perhaps report back my findings.
Premiering August 21, I.O.U.S.A promises to be a disturbing distillation of the nightmare mathematics of our (and thus the current global) economic picture. Warren Buffett needs no introduction, and David Walker is the outspoken US Comptroller sounding loud alarm bells from within government for years. Round up the posse and go check it out…or, if your feeling spunky call your local Congressperson and invite them to join too..
So much for the good news…
As Wall Street goes, so goes the nation.
And here’s a look at the closing numbers –
racism’s up,
human rights are down,
peace is shaky,
war items are hot - the House claims all ties.
Jobs are down, money is scarce – and common sense is at an all-time low on heavy trading.
Movies were looking better than ever and now no one is looking because, we’re starring in a “B” movie.
And we would rather had John Wayne…we would rather had John Wayne.
To continue with the positive news, here is a clip of the FCC decision to punish Comcast for blocking internet traffic to users. The fight will continue because AT&T, Verizon and the like still want to charge for bandwidth usage which will eventually lead to an unequal internet much like everything else in this pay to play society of ours. On with the good news…
You gotta feel good about your country when a priest, a kid and a couple of old folks are going to jail in an effort to arrest a bloated blathering bush admin official.
It seems like it could become somewhat of a sport ….. meaning that a couple of the heros were arrested before for the same offense and seem now to be emboldened and proud of their previous transgressions - the cops put them in - they get out and try it again - ain’t that America.
If at first you don’t succeed PLEASE try again.
Who will be the first to get any one of the Bastardos? ….. it certainly won’t be anyone in the Democratic Party.
