Invade Iran?

Posted by handball on September 5, 2010

it seems to me iran is a totally different case then iraq or certinly afganistan. iranians are persians so, there is that big difference. iranians r westernised. setellite television rtc….. true they have a pretty silly president who says pretty silly things. some of his comments r probably exagerated or mistranslated. hey , the media has to make a living. the last iranian election was a joke and their president is becoming more similar to a dictator than an elected president.

persions r a whole different bag from arabs.

hold on , hold on. im not saying all arabs r bad. im probably part arab. im talking about that backward islamist agressive attitude that we know is so prevelent amung arabs.

i worked in an office once and one day what i thought was an arab guy started working there. he was persian and immediatly had issues with the office arab guy. i was surprised.

i am impressed by the western style clothes worn by iranians. the videoe ive seen looks very much like western cities. i would love to visit iran.

two senators in iran are jewish.

christians live in iran.

all these things that i like about iran would probably be destroyed in a matter of days if we invaded.

not an option.

instead i think our interstes would be better served by an opening up of trade with iran. they obviously have a taste for american styles and may be an excellent trading partner. why let the russians have them.

iran is a superpower in the middle east. an area we have our share of headaches in.

70 % of the population in iran is under 30. still young enough to make friends with.

the problem is ….. as is so often the case , the government. i want the government to change . i want the iranian government to be more pro american. i short i would like to see the same change in iran that has happened in the u s a .

i want to help effect this change. i dont want us directly interfearing/invading/propagandizing their elections. thats why i propose opening up trade. promoting trade. giving tax incentives to companies trading with iran. lets give the iranians a good reason to be friends with us. trade restrictions r making us the badguys. making us not valuable to iran.

trade will propagandize the iranian elections in a less direct way.

check out the second article ive noted below. written by a 19 year old iranian

cioa baby

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Op-Ed Contributor – How to End the Great Recession – NYTimes.com

Posted by Aimlow Joe on September 3, 2010

THIS promises to be the worst Labor Day in the memory of most Americans. Organized labor is down to about 7 percent of the private work force. Members of non-organized labor — most of the rest of us — are unemployed, underemployed or underwater. The Labor Department reported on Friday that just 67,000 new private-sector jobs were created in August, while at least 125,000 are needed to keep up with the growth of the potential work force.

The national economy isn’t escaping the gravitational pull of the Great Recession. None of the standard booster rockets are working: near-zero short-term interest rates from the Fed, almost record-low borrowing costs in the bond market, a giant stimulus package and tax credits for small businesses that hire the long-term unemployed have all failed to do enough.

via Op-Ed Contributor – How to End the Great Recession – NYTimes.com.

Happy Labor Day Everyone. Now get back to the salt mines. And if you don’t have a job, don’t count on getting one soon.

I like Robert Reich, he’s smart and gives a shit about the average American. But in this editorial he has his head up his ass. It is way past time for people like Reich to be cordial and polite. He should be standing on Wall Street with a bull horn leading the charge on the Federal Reserve. No one is listening to reason these days.

There is plenty of money in the economy. Just look at all of the M&A activity going on lately. Big companies are gobbling up smaller companies and there is plenty of cash on the books of corporate America.

The problem with money these days as Reich correctly points out is that it is all sitting in the accounts of the ultra wealthy. And they do not want to share the wealth.

Of course this didn’t occur accidentally. It’s been happening in front of our faces and in fact with our blessing for so long it seems like normal.

In the next few weeks President Obama is supposed to come out with a plan to turn the economy around. Somehow I do not think he is going to be telling rich people they are too rich for the good of the economy.

Somehow I doubt he is going to come out with a plan to eliminate the Federal Reserve and end the stranglehold of the international banking cartel.

Slavery may have ended in 1865, but the elite figured out a better way to keep us all under their thumb. They made us all wage slaves. This way they no longer have to pay our room and board, but they own us nonetheless. It’s a kinder, gentler form of slavery.

If you didn’t see it, the German magazine Der Spiegel reported on a a German Military report on the coming fucked up  effects of Peak Oil on society.  The cat is out of the bag. Peak Oil will be creeping into the main stream American press soon.

What this means is that the good times are over. There will be no recovery.

Get back to the salt mines. Or the unemployment lines.

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Police kill gunman who held 3 at Discovery Channel

Posted by Aimlow Joe on September 1, 2010

A man who railed against the Discovery Channel’s environmental programming for years burst into the company’s headquarters with at least one explosive device strapped to his body Wednesday and took three people hostage at gunpoint before police shot him to death, officials said.

The hostages — two Discovery Communications employees and a security guard — were unhurt after the four-hour standoff. Montgomery County Police Chief Thomas Manger said tactical officers moved in after officers monitoring Lee on building security cameras saw him pull out a handgun and point it at a hostage.

via Police kill gunman who held 3 at Discovery Channel.

This just in from the “Mother Fucker, if you don’t put on a Deadliest Catch marathon right now, someone is going to catch a bullet!” Department.

Have you ever gotten so pissed off at a television channel that you protested outside their offices? Me neither. Have you ever gotten so pissed off at a television channel that you went berserk and tried to take over the offices? Me too.

This fucking moron had no friends. You know how I know that? Because he put on his best suicide bomber jacket and headed over to the Discovery channel building.

If he had friends they would have told him to change the fucking channel!

His picture is on the SFGate  web site. I don’t want to post it here because he looks retarded and as much as want to, I can’t make fun of retarded people. I am half a retard after all.

I will say this for the guy, at least he waited for Shark Week to be over! All kidding aside, or as much kidding aside as I can handle, the guy had serious mental problems that should have been clear to his family and his doctor. See what happens when you choose to look the other way?

He should have been force fed medication until he sobered up and realized he was protesting a television station.

Just the fact that he was a regular protester is proof that someone else was paying his way in the world. Guys with jobs don’t pay homeless people to hold their signs. Guys on SSI however do pay homeless people to hold their signs. See what happens when the unemployment rate is too high? Guys like this go into business for themselves.

Did he 1099 those homeless guys? I guess it doesn’t matter now.

If he was serious about saving the environment he should have been protesting Bravo for putting on that Real Housewives bullshit. It’s doing far more damage to the environment than the Discovery Channel.

Or he should have been protesting MTV for putting on that Jersey Shore disaster. If he would have busted into their beach house and shot the joint up, I’d have bought him his first shot of Thorazine.

His hosting company took down his web site. Did he not pay the bill? It would have been a interesting to read his mad ramblings. I hate when they do that, freedom of speech and shit! Someone, quick post a mirror!

And kudos to Dead Eye Dick for putting this poor guy out of his misery. If he had had to spend the rest of his life locked up next to Ted Kaczynski it would have been unbearable for both men. Their conversations would have ended with “I know, right?”

He was concerned about overpopulation. I know the feeling, the world is full of assholes, but at least he did something about it. The world has one less asshole in it.

RIP dickhead, thanks for doing your part.

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At Bookstore, Even Those Not Buying Regret Its End – NYTimes.com

Posted by Aimlow Joe on September 1, 2010

On Monday afternoon, Jai Cha walked out of the Barnes & Noble at 66th Street and Broadway in Manhattan as he does nearly every week — without a book.

“I’m just killing time,” said Mr. Cha, a 30-year-old lawyer, his hands stuffed deep in his pockets. “I’ve been coming here to read Bill Simmons’s ‘Book of Basketball,’ about a chapter at a time.”

He might have to hurry. Barnes & Noble announced on Monday that at the end of January it would close the store, a four-story space across the street from Lincoln Center that has been a neighborhood landmark since it opened nearly 15 years ago.

“We recognize that this store has been an important part of the fabric of the Upper West Side community since we opened our doors on Oct. 20, 1995,” Mary Ellen Keating, a company spokeswoman, said in a statement. “However, the current lease is at its end of term, and the increased rent that would be required to stay in the location makes it economically impossible for us to extend the lease.”

It has been a bumpy year for Barnes & Noble, the country’s largest book chain, with 720 stores. Sales and store traffic have suffered as the book business has shifted online; Amazon has held its early lead in the e-reader war; and early this month, Barnes & Noble put itself up for sale and is now in the midst of a battle for control of the company with Ronald W. Burkle, the billionaire investor.

via At Bookstore, Even Those Not Buying Regret Its End – NYTimes.com.

I buy a lot of books each year, but I am not sad about Barnes and Noble closing. It is the Walmart of books. The fact that a billionaire is investing in a book store chain ought to be a chilling reminder of the dumbing down of our society.

I prefer a nice old dusty used bookstore to Walmart. I prefer weird bookstore proprietors to the young hipster check-out workers at Barnes and Noble. I am not certain that the hipsters actually read.

I buy a lot of books online because most old used books stores have been driven out of business by the giants.

There is still one used bookstore left in my town. The store looks like the Collyer Brothers apartment. Nothing is categorized and it is actually hard to walk down the aisles. They are so piled high with books you can not help but knock a few over.

It’s amazing that the Fire Marshall has not condemned the place. I honestly do not know how he stays in business. My guess is that he is the last man standing and there are enough people like me around to pay his rent.

I’d rather buy the books in a store because I like to actually look at the book before I buy it. It is a nice sensory experience to pick up a book and page through it. Going through the shelves is a journey of discovery. There is nothing quite like the smell of a books store. A new bookstore smells like chemicals and paper. A used bookstore smells like a tomb of knowledge.

Online bookstores have begun charging tax on purchases. This may be good news for brick and mortar stores. It may actually be cheaper to go to a bookstore and avoid the shipping charges.

I won’t miss the superstorization of books. I’ll continue to peruse the shelves of dusty bookstore whenever possible.

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ex bin ladin aide gets life sentence for stabbing a prison guard in the eye

Posted by handball on September 1, 2010

ummmm…..

i guess im happy with the life sentence. only because i think its a sentence worse than death. torture would be nice. although i wonder if torture would tarnish us more than make him suffer.

it may be torture enough for salim to sit out his life in a small cell.

i dont get how bringing salim a donut works.

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Heavy Drinkers Outlive Nondrinkers, Study Finds – TIME

Posted by Aimlow Joe on August 31, 2010

One of the most contentious issues in the vast literature about alcohol consumption has been the consistent finding that those who don’t drink actually tend to die sooner than those who do. The standard Alcoholics Anonymous explanation for this finding is that many of those who show up as abstainers in such research are actually former hard-core drunks who had already incurred health problems associated with drinking.

But a new paper in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research suggests that — for reasons that aren’t entirely clear — abstaining from alcohol does actually tend to increase one’s risk of dying even when you exclude former drinkers. The most shocking part? Abstainers’ mortality rates are higher than those of heavy drinkers.

via Heavy Drinkers Outlive Nondrinkers, Study Finds – TIME.

This just in from the “Yeah Boy, This Is Awesome News” Department.

Years ago, when I had a social life and my body could handle it, I drank as much as I could as often as I could. I don’t think I ever turned down an offer of a beer. I liked to hit it hard and it was good.

One thing I know is that going through life sober is a bitch. It is just an awful burden to walk the straight and narrow. The Buddha knew that life is suffering. He wasn’t talking about hangovers.

I think the sober life leads to all sorts of uncivilized behavior. How else can you explain former drunk Glenn Beck’s behavior this past weekend?

Sober people die sooner because they lose the will to live sooner than drinkers. Drinkers can always look forward to the next party or the next happy hour. Sober people look forward to what?

Life is more fun with a buzz. It’s not rocket science, it is human nature. You might do some stupid shit, but fuck it, you won’t remember most of it anyway.

Go ahead an have a few, don’t cross the line to village drunk, but stick a toe over that line every once in a while. You just might find you live a longer and jollier existence.

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Obama Blames “Network of Misinformation” for Rumors About His Religion, Birth

Posted by handball on August 30, 2010

lets face it. the best thing about obama is that he is black. the second best thing is that he has a muslim sounding name.

the fact that he is black closes the door on a racial issue thats been plaguing america for a century.

the name helps because it shows that we r after terrorists not muslims.

he is still young and may improve as a leader.

 i hope he does.

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FT.com / US / Society – Luxury booms while bargain retail suffers

Posted by Aimlow Joe on August 29, 2010

Personal spending in the US is diverging into two distinct categories as strong growth at high-end stores contrasts with continuing difficulties for mass-market, low-price retailers.

Nearly a year after the US economy returned to growth, corporate earnings reports in recent months have provided consistent evidence of the differing fortunes. At high-end stores such as Neiman Marcus and Tiffany, shoppers are demonstrating confidence and spending with vigour. At the other end of the retail spectrum, consumers are cautious amid economic uncertainties, denting the earnings of groups such as Walmart.

In the second quarter of 2010, personal consumption expenditure – the commerce department’s main measure of consumer spending – advanced at an annualised rate of 2 per cent in the US, matching the fourth quarter 2009 figure and improving upon the 1.9 per cent gain recorded in the first quarter of this year. However, these modest increases are much weaker than the rebound in consumer consumption experienced after previous recessions.

via FT.com / US / Society – Luxury booms while bargain retail suffers.

You have to love the fact that the rich are doing fine in this world economic meltdown. It would be awful if they were suffering along with the rest of us.

God has endowed them with certain inalienable rights. Rights that the poor do not have and do not deserve. The rich are different because God loves them more than the poor. These rights include the right to piss on the poor, to dumb down the poor, to murder the poor and to enslave the poor.

I’m not talking about your run of the mill Mercedes driving soccer mom who thinks she is rich. I’m talking about the .1% of the elite who run the show. They think you are a piece of their property and giggle when you show a little backbone. They know they have yo by the balls.  Squirm all you want, you can’t break free.

The rich truly believe that they are entitled to rule over the poor because money makes them better. I’m not rich so I wouldn’t know if money makes them better. Maybe it does. Maybe they are right and that is how they sleep at night. If they actually sleep.

And so here we are as this article says, nearly a year into the the “recovery” and it seems as though the rich have recovered. This is Prima Facie evidence that we all deserve what we get.

More evidence that the poor deserve what they get is the fact that 300,000 people turned out to hear Glenn Beck pontificate at the Lincoln Memorial yesterday.

The poor couldn’t get 300,000 people to turn out for a protest or a gathering if there was a free pot roast dinner waiting for them. The poor just can’t get their shit together enough to throw off the shackles of their overlords. It’s an age old condition. We are not going to see it change in our lifetimes.

You have to know that the elite are laughing their asses off today. They got 300,000 people to turn out for their own ass kicking. Glenn Beck is the ring leader, but he doesn’t own the circus. Although it was a very funny circus.

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Paris Hilton Arrested on Drug Charge – NYTimes.com

Posted by Aimlow Joe on August 28, 2010

LAS VEGAS AP — Police arrested Paris Hilton on cocaine possession charges late Friday night after stopping the car she was in on a Las Vegas street, authorities said.

The socialite was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on the cocaine charge, Las Vegas police spokesman Marcus Martin said.

Police said she was released later on her own recognizance.

The 29-year-old Hilton was in a car driven by a friend when it was stopped about 11:30 p.m. MDT Friday when officers noticed what they suspected to be marijuana smoke coming from it, he told The Associated Press.;

“Officers noticed a vehicle leavng smoke trail of a controlled substance and made a stop based on that,” Martin said.

via Paris Hilton Arrested on Drug Charge – NYTimes.com.

Just when Lindsay Lohan was feeling the heat, here comes Paris Hilton to the rescue. That’s hot.

Doing coke is a young persons game and at 29, Paris is approaching the point of not hot. That being said, I know most of you reading this article are wishing you were in that car with high as a kite Paris.

She’s rich and beautiful and will get off with a slap on the wrist. After all Las Vegas is Sin City and they hand you an eight ball at the city line.

It could be far worse she could be using her money to finance the Tea Party.

Instead of rehab, the judge might want to sentence Paris to a visit to the Mexican border where just this week 72 bodies were found. Victims of the drug war. Getting Paris to help notify the families and clean up the mess would be hot.

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Unwelcome Neighbor for Empire State Building

Posted by handball on August 27, 2010

The above rendering shows the proposed skyscraper at 15 Penn Plaza. This rendering was produced by the owners of the Empire state Building. i was displayed at a meeting of the new York City council. it was supposed to show how the new building would disrupt the nyc skyline. the Council voted overwelmingly in favor of the new tower.

The Empire State Building was built in 1934 during the great depression. i gives me great hope to see that a similar tower may begin construction during our current depression. Lets hope history repeats itself. i mean that in terms of economic recovery , not world war.

I agree  with the city council . the citys skyline should continue to grow and change. New York and America for that matter is a place where the new is welcome and there is not much nostalgia for the old.

After all as the article refrenced states . The tallest structures on manhattan would be windmills if we all thought like the owners of the empire state building.

Certinly the colluseum was out of zoning context when it was built. The parthenon ruined a beautiful hilltop.

I wish the new building was taller. I think New York City would profit from being home to the tallest building on earth.

It seems progress at ground zero is nill. maby they should turn the site over to some islamists. maby they could build the tallest building on earth there. somehow pay homage to the victims of 911. the site could become a statement of peace between our two peoples. islamists knocked the towers down. It only seems fair that we give this group a chance to make reperations.

the site does not have to celebrate the fact that 3000 americans were murdered there. i could celebrate peace between our peoples. something along the lines of ” the high profile death of these 3000 americans resulted in the deaths of many hundreds of thousands of muslims but also brought to the worlds attention the deep rift between our peoples, and in doing so set the groundwork for a healing. a healing that led to the construction of this, the worlds tallest most advanced building. let this building be a reminder of what we can do together in peace and how disasterious war can be .” the building could house museams that display the terrors of 911 along with the death and distruction brought by the usa to arab countries. the displays should not pull punches. they should show just how fucking discusting and awful war is. the displays should be so dramatic that they may cause people to THINK. think for just 5 minutes about what  they doing before comitting an act of war. the world would come visit. The world would become a better place because of their visits. it would become the worlds most famous building, it would promote world peace, it would bring needed profits to the city. a great way to honor the victims of 911. the building should house a muslim school. it should be stocked with the greatest instructors available. it should teach its muslim students to tolerate other religions. the graduating students should recieve funds to start their own schools in muslim countries. the only way out of this war is thru educating the young. by educating the young you create an end date to the war. after all, the problem (islamic extremism) begins in their schools.

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Former RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman Comes Out: I’m Gay

Posted by Aimlow Joe on August 27, 2010

Ken Mehlman, who headed the Republican National Committee between 2005 and 2007, has come out in an interview with the Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder:

Mehlman arrived at this conclusion about his identity fairly recently, he said in an interview. He agreed to answer a reporter’s questions, he said, because, now in private life, he wants to become an advocate for gay marriage and anticipated that questions would be asked about his participation in a late-September fundraiser for the American Foundation for Equal Rights AFER, the group that supported the legal challenge to California’s ballot initiative against gay marriage, Proposition 8.

via Former RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman Comes Out: I’m Gay.

Ken Mehlman

The headline should have just read DUH!

Can we just have a National Coming Out Day and get the whole thing over with?

Sort of like Tax Amnesty Day. We’ll give everyone a pass and just get on with the business of fixing the economy.

No one gives a shit!

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Op-Ed Columnist – This Is Not a Recovery – NYTimes.com

Posted by Aimlow Joe on August 27, 2010

What will Ben Bernanke, the Fed chairman, say in his big speech Friday in Jackson Hole, Wyo.? Will he hint at new steps to boost the economy? Stay tuned.

But we can safely predict what he and other officials will say about where we are right now: that the economy is continuing to recover, albeit more slowly than they would like. Unfortunately, that’s not true: this isn’t a recovery, in any sense that matters. And policy makers should be doing everything they can to change that fact.

The small sliver of truth in claims of continuing recovery is the fact that G.D.P. is still rising: we’re not in a classic recession, in which everything goes down. But so what?

via Op-Ed Columnist – This Is Not a Recovery – NYTimes.com.

This just in from the “We Have Run Out Of Options” department.

The Brotherhood of Darkness is holding its annual convention in Jackson Hole, Wyoming this week. If you have never been to Jackson Hole, you ought to go. It is the farthest thing from Hell on Earth that America owns.

My guess it that the BOD chooses this site because it is so close to Yellowstone Park and the thermal activity in Yellowstone must be the source of the Brotherhood’s evil powers.

We can only hope that the gigantic earthquake predicted for the Yellowstone Valley occurs under the Four Seasons Hotel in Jackson Hole. It could swallow the whole hotel and we could get on with the business of rebuilding our country in a more equitable and sensible way.  But alas that deal with Old Scratch signed by John D. Rockefeller in 1870 is still in effect. We’ll have no such luck.

Take a few minutes to read Paul Krugman’s column. You’ll walk away knowing that the Fed and the Treasury have really run out of options.

This Depression is going to go on for a long long time. We are already 2 years into it and the economic indicators are as scary as they were the day Lehman collapses.

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NYC Cab Driver Stabbed after saying he is muslim

Posted by handball on August 26, 2010

in my younger days the most fun part of the night was the cabrides. upon entering the cab we would ask for music , request a station and then “TURN IT UP , TURN IT UP” we were skinny enough to fit thru nthe window and reach the radio and turn it up ourselves. the cabby thus feltout. merry making began  sex, drugs , alcahol, cigarettes. one time i reached out the rear window and took the drivers turbin in response to his protests. ” no smokey no turbin”. once we had a cab driver that looked just like santa clause. we got in the cab and were just blown away. “sants u drive a cab, i guess its the off season”. santa was a memorable one. people doing blow and smoking pot in the cab. santa pulled alongside a cop car and actually called out ” hey pigs! got any heroin!” in those days i went out for a night on the town with about 35 bucks , so often the cabbies went without pay. i remember taking a bunch of girls to a club that i didnt realize was only 2 blocks away (bowery bar). i didnt have the 3 bucks for the fare. one of my favorite lines was “take me to brooklyn or ill take this cab away fromyou”. i loved to put my boot thru the window and threaten to kick the driver in the face before giving instructions. i was pulling this move in front of yankee stadium one night when 2 of nyc finest simultanoiusly opened either rear door and somehow pulled me out by my arms and feet. i was struggling with then on the hood. just noticing the patches on their uniform sleeves when a friend came along and talked me and them out of the encounter. i had already been thrown out of the yankee stadium bar . i keep calling the waitress bitch and nurse instead of waitress. freuidian slip i guess. i had been thrown out of my seats by other fans. bigger older heavier fans. finally with security after me and big mean strong fans that were actually hitting i ran into a gift shop and tried to buy a jacket. i was going to use it to throw them off my trail. i requested a medium away jacket. the guy gives me one and im frickin swimming in it. its a large and it made me feel small. when i looked at the label. i said “hey, i said medium, what? do u think i eat whatever i want like u , u fat bastard!”. he was on the phone in seconds. security arrived and flung me out of the stadium. ok , that brings me to the boot in the face cabbie part of the story where i left off

 i fell in love with my wife one night while beating a cabbie out of a fair. i barely knew her , but she kept her composure so well i couldnt resist. another favorite was to( some of my friends still do this) actually get hit by a slow moving cab , roll over the hood. then as the driver got out. jump into the back seat. an excellent way to set the mood for the cabride.

i hope the court goes easy on this kid. he is young and just having fun. obviously nthings got out of control for a few seconds. there must be some penalty. i hope it not 25 years.

i wish there was some organised press on the muslim side of this equation. confirming for us that they love america. and the vast majority of them abhore what happened on 911. telling us that they r working day and night to ferrit out terrorists and hand them over. telling us that its ok for us to practice our religions also or not prectice at all. punishing terrorists on their own . sentincing terrorists to 25 years in their prisons. destroying a young muslims life because he acted out twords an american. is there?

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The billionaire Koch brothers : The New Yorker

Posted by Aimlow Joe on August 24, 2010

The Kochs are longtime libertarians who believe in drastically lower personal and corporate taxes, minimal social services for the needy, and much less oversight of industry—especially environmental regulation. These views dovetail with the brothers’ corporate interests. In a study released this spring, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst’s Political Economy Research Institute named Koch Industries one of the top ten air polluters in the United States. And Greenpeace issued a report identifying the company as a “kingpin of climate science denial.” The report showed that, from 2005 to 2008, the Kochs vastly outdid ExxonMobil in giving money to organizations fighting legislation related to climate change, underwriting a huge network of foundations, think tanks, and political front groups. Indeed, the brothers have funded opposition campaigns against so many Obama Administration policies—from health-care reform to the economic-stimulus program—that, in political circles, their ideological network is known as the Kochtopus.

In a statement, Koch Industries said that the Greenpeace report “distorts the environmental record of our companies.” And David Koch, in a recent, admiring article about him in New York, protested that the “radical press” had turned his family into “whipping boys,” and had exaggerated its influence on American politics. But Charles Lewis, the founder of the Center for Public Integrity, a nonpartisan watchdog group, said, “The Kochs are on a whole different level. There’s no one else who has spent this much money. The sheer dimension of it is what sets them apart. They have a pattern of lawbreaking, political manipulation, and obfuscation. I’ve been in Washington since Watergate, and I’ve never seen anything like it. They are the Standard Oil of our times.”

via The billionaire Koch brothers : The New Yorker.

When I write about the Brotherhood Of Darkness I am being serious. Here is an article about how 2 brothers who are charter members of the BOD are working to manipulate the dip shits of the Tea Party into voting for their policies.

The Tea Party is a front organization for people in the Brotherhood. They know they can not come out from behind the curtain and actually show themselves in the light of day, so they use stupid easily fooled people to do their bidding. They tell these people what to say and what to think. It would be comical if it weren’t so scary.

Have you ever wondered how the issues of the day are framed? Read this article and you’ll have a primer on the elite and how they really run the show.

These people are not your friends and they would step over you in the street if you fell down in front of them.  Well, I might  step over you too, I’m in a hurry.

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Home Sales at Lowest Level in More Than a Decade – NYTimes.com

Posted by Aimlow Joe on August 24, 2010

Housing sales in July plunged to their lowest level in more than a decade, exceeding even the grimmest forecasts.

The National Association of Realtors said Tuesday that the seasonally adjusted annual sales rate of 3.83 million was 25.5 percent below the level of July a year ago.

July was the first month that buyers could not qualify for a tax credit of up to $8,000, so analysts were expecting weak results. But their consensus called for a decline of about 13 percent.

Jennifer H. Lee, senior economist for BMO Capital Markets, called the numbers “truly gut-wrenching.”

via Home Sales at Lowest Level in More Than a Decade – NYTimes.com.

Holy Fucking mansion on a hill! An unexpectedly gigantic shit storm hit the housing market last month.

You know the numbers are grim when the New York Times actually uses the word grimmest in the article. We’ve turned the corner and are heading down the road to darkness.

There is now talk about the double dip recession. Of course we all know this is not a possibility. For a double dip there would have had to be a recovery. Where was the recovery? It was in the statistics of  hopeful economists. It was not in the real world.  We are growing, but slowly say the economist. Too slow to bring the unemployment rate down.

How can we be growing if the unemployment rate is not coming down? Where is the growth? Seriously where is the growth?Take a look around your town. Count the number of empty storefronts. Have you seen any new businesses replace those that have shuttered? I have not.

I think that people are just sick and tired of being lied to by the government and the news media. They are looking around and seeing the stock market drop again and the housing market keep dropping. They are seeing the prices of things rise and getting told that there is no inflation. It is a fucking joke at this point. The news ought to be written in comic strip form.

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china raises minumum wage

Posted by handball on August 24, 2010

population of china 1.3 billion (thanks bennett)

population of usa 300,000,000

4.33 chinese per american

usa gdp 14,000,ooo million dollars

china gdp 5,000,ooo million dollars

usa gdp is 2.8 times larger than chinas

4.33 times 2.8 equals 12

so every american does the work of 12 chinese men?

and we dont even have jobs! aaaah ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaa

how r we acomplishing this?

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spain pays terrorists

Posted by handball on August 24, 2010

there r many ways to skin a cat. all of which include the detail of the cat being dead. same with terrorists . many ways to deal with em, all should include them being dead.

spain paying terrorists in my opinion puts them on the terrorists side.

who knows what these bastards will do with the money. use it to kill us? maby.

spain is such a sissy.

well, they funded columbus. and they did some other cool stuff.

a few million euros really does not amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.

i changed my mind. i doesnt matter what spain does. i dont care

spain is small and insignificant

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lou pinella to retire

Posted by handball on August 22, 2010

im really gonna miss lou pinella.

the way he totally flipped out.

the way the croud youst ta chear for him when he played. they cheered louuuuu but it sounded like booooooo

he went right at the game. his only request was that a pitcher throw strikes.

fuck it let em hit the ball, but dont go down afraid to throw strikes

someone else may have held him back at times , but lou certinly wasnt holdin nuthin back. he gave us his all. it was the only way he could play or manage.

too bad there r not more like em.

i loved it when he threw bases or threw equipment onto the field.

he is great

HEY LOU IF YOUR READING ………………..THANKS MAN! GREAT JOB! YOU PUT ON A HELL OF A GREAT SHOW.

I always tuned in to his games with great antipitation. I felt great relief when he ranted and railed at the system.

 the system that employed lesser men to judge him.

the system that employed lesser men to judge him

Continue reading →

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What Spreads Faster Than Bedbugs? Stigma – NYTimes.com

Posted by Aimlow Joe on August 21, 2010

Bedbugs, once nearly eradicated, have spread across New York City, in part because of the decline in the use of DDT. According to the city’s Department of Housing and Preservation, the number of bedbug violations has gone up 67 percent in the last two years. In the most recent fiscal year, which ended on June 30, the city’s 311 help line recorded 12,768 bedbug complaints, 16 percent more than the previous year and 39 percent above the year before. A New York City community health survey showed that in 2009, 1 in 15 New Yorkers had bedbugs in their homes, a number that is probably higher now.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that bedbugs’ social cost is rising as well.

The Upper West Side caterer’s best friend was too scared to invite her to come out to the Hamptons this summer. When Hilary Davis, a waitress from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, had her apartment treated two years ago because of bedbugs, her friends and even her boyfriend refused to take her in. (But they were willing to take care of her cat.) “So I was left in a bug-ridden apartment alone,” Ms. Davis said.

via What Spreads Faster Than Bedbugs? Stigma – NYTimes.com.

This just in from the “Things That Go Slurp In The Night” department.

I have to call bullshit on the comment that the rise in bed bugs is attributed to the ban on DDT. DDT was banned in the US in 1972. You’d have to think that Bed Bugs would have made a comeback sooner than 38 years. Either that or DDT works for  a long long time.

My conspiracy theory spider sense is guessing that the DDT meme is being pushed by chemical companies and the Brotherhood of Darkness.

I understand that DDT was a very effective insecticide. There is no doubt it did what it said it did. It killed bugs like a mother fucker. It also killed Bald Eagles and California Condors and other birds by thinning their egg shells.

If we have to make a choice between bed bugs and Eagles, I’ll choose Eagles.

There are some groups who advocate the use of DDT to cut down on the cases of malaria in the developing world.

It is a hard choice to make between decreasing the cases of malaria and poisoning the environment. But fuck it, the world population is out of control anyway so I’ll choose malaria and a less polluted environment.

It’s just an off the cuff choice, but I feel comfortable making it from my comfortable chair in an air conditioned house. I’m selfish I know. But nobody is perfect.

And as far a bed bugs go, I just spent a night at the Nickelodeon Hotel in Orlando, Florida. One of the joys of having young kids and going along on a big family vacation is going outside of your comfort zone.  Florida in August is unbearable and adding a water park full of the Hoi Polloi to the mix is enough to make this germophobe lose his fucking mind.

Bed Bugs were the least of my worries at that shit hole of a hotel. It looked like someone took a prison and shook it like a salt and pepper shaker into the pool at the water park.

If you had added up all of the IQ’s in the pool, Einstein would still have come out ahead.

I went home and took a Silkwood shower. I couldn’t get the skeevy feeling off of me. I couldn’t sleep. I spent the night on the couch wrapped in plastic garbage bags. I wanted to flee in the middle of the night, but the thought of winding up on the evening news accused of child abandonment kept me from succumbing to my fantasy.

I didn’t actually go into the water above my knees and only then to rescue my drowning children, but I think a got a little drop of  water in my mouth and I was more frightened of the water than H1N1.

If Dante were alive today the Nick Hotel would be one of his circles of Hell.  Sponge Bob is giving Nosferatu a run for his money.  Old Scratch ought to be getting a franchise fee.

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http://www.venere.com/blog/pizza-naples-italy-countryiside-8867/

Posted by handball on August 20, 2010

Handball walks into a pizzeria in italy

handball: una pizza Margerita por favore

pizza man: (in italian) what r u fuckin crazy. i dint make pizza till 730pm.

handball; why?

Pizza man: come on…… its too hot.

can you believe this. The pizza man the waiter and the owner of the restaurant make pizza in the morning then stop. they hang around the pizza shop all day. straightening napkins . watching ants, they dont make any pizza till arouns sunset when the temp drops a few degrees. and u guys think we r in trouble? hey italians AIR CONDITIONING EXISTS NOW!

also the fuckin toilets over here are designed so that your shit does NOT hit water. No , it lands in porcelin. then you gotta scrub it off with a brush that gets used EVERY TIME somebody takes a shit.filthy fuckin brush. shitty brush i should say.

i was discussing these and a few other observations with a italian friend. and he said “you see, thats american”

i slowly said ( i didnt want to startel him because i really really want to know WHAT IS AMERICAN0

i said america changes every day. america fifty years ago is not america today. america is nothing it does not have a defining culture. its a changing mix.we were on the right a couple of years ago now we r on the left

to my astonishment he said ‘thats IT!’ THATS WHAT AMERICA IS.

he explained

an american says ” why dont i make pzza all day?’ and he changes his hours

an american says to himself ‘ i hate scrubbing shit off porcelin and he redesigns the toilet bowl.’

an american says ‘ that is a chair but it can also be a bed.

aww man i thought i was onto something here. i seem to have lost it.

i lite a cigarette ……………………………………………………………………………………

you see having a culture is a big disadvantage for a country

culture os bad, it stifels creativity

michael angelo -bad

opera -bad

anything established and unquestiones -bad

face it opera sucks. everybody knows it sucks. but cultured people get all dressed up and go to the opera and cry and carry on. its a bunch o fat girls yelling. i dont have to get dressed up for that. every dive in america is full o that. fat girls yelling sucks. you see what i mean? im being american.

looking at paintings sucks. it sucks . movies r better. paintings…….im supposed to go to a museam and look at paintings all day and be really impressed. yeah right , if it was 500 years ago. fuck off

i have never been to an amusing museam. fuck em.

to hot to make pizza? re fuckin dick you lus

im supposed to go to naples and wait all day for the pizza artist to make me a pizza . so that i can have the real experience. get the fuck outa hear

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