Small errors almost resulted in anihilation at least 6 times

And, surprise, all six times involved nukes.  Whatever happened to the movement to get rid of those damn things?  

6 Tiny Mistakes That Almost Ended the World | Cracked.com

survival guide for the run up through November

5 Ways to Spot a B.S. Political Story in Under 10 Seconds | Cracked.com

So funny I forgot to laugh

and to all those people that want to shrink the size of government to preserve liberty  - what do you say about one small group of "private" businessmen position themselves to have unilateral dominance over the vast bulk of the food supply? when those private businessmen decide to start exploiting society's dependence in ways that aren't good for anyone but them - who is supposed to step up and protect the people?

6 Secret Monopolies You Didn't Know Run the World | Cracked.com

Two things are certain: (1) the kid's an asshole, and (2) judges fuck up everything when it comes to families

Dad raises a kid as his own, thinking he's his own.  Turns out it might not be the case - and he has some credible proof.  He wants a DNA test so he can sue the guy that banged his wife for some the expenses of raising his kid.  The kid - now an adult -  says he doesn't want to know - preventing the man who raised him as his own from seeing anything resembling justice.  The courts side with the kid.

Kid's an asshole.  Courts suck at handling family issues.

http://www.law.com/jsp/nj/PubArticleNJ.jsp?id=1202550462759&thepage=1

The punk thing to do: throw a party when everyone's down and worry about paying for it later.

I suppose it's nice he has a philosophical reason, but I have to disagree with John Lydon's (Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols) reason for snubbing the olympics.  The whole idea that England cannot afford something is ludicrous. Interest rates are so low, its irresponsible not to be spending money.  And all this so-called-austerity is killing the economy.  Notice all the cuts come in the form of program slashes for everyday people and the poor - free money for bankers, subsidies for business, and tax cuts for the wealthy are always on the table regardless of their impact on the budget.

Either way, the reason the economy won't grow is because people are broke or are fearful of being dead broke in the future.  They're not spending money. The cure for that is business expansion that puts people back to work. Business isn't going to expand operations regardless of the tax rate or the public balance sheet unless it has a customer to sell goods and services to.   How do you break the viscous cycle?

Government spending.  Granted, spending on infra structure upgrades is probably better than on a big party (which is what the Olympics is), but throwing money out of a helicopter for people to spend is better than what they're doing now.  So given its the only thing the austerity pushers in England are willing to splurge on, I'm all for it.

Obviously, you can't blame a musician for not being as up on their economics as Paul Krugman.  However, refocusing and conflating the short term growth problem with the long term debt issue is a right wing strategy to exploit a crisis.  In god times they want to tear down the modern social safety net.  In bad times they want to tear down the modern social safety net.  They want to tear it down because it liberal.  They want to tear it down because its socialist.  They want to tear it down because its the road to fascism.  They'll say anything to tear it down - they just want a society where the better off aren't responsible for the well being of the people as a whole - and a place where people are hungry enough to work longer hours, for less pay, with less safety, and with less concern for the environment.   It's sad to see Johhny Rotten getting suckered by the rhetoric.

John Lydon speaks out on the Sex Pistols' refusal to play the Olympics

Perhaps the campaign is cynical, but liberals are pretty damn naive

if they think its obvious that somebody shares their world view simply because they're gay or dark skinned.  

Right-Wing, Anti-Public Education Group Funds Gay, Muslim Democrat as Stealth Candidate in PA House District « SpeakEasy

progress

Texas College Converts its Football Field into a Working Farm : TreeHugger

Dislike! Facebook supports government spying | SumOfUs

Yet, even open source me still plays in his exploitative walled garden.

Dislike! Facebook supports government spying | SumOfUs

Helen Keller Sunglasses: Insensitive Insult or Respectful Tribute?

Who knows, but telling the story of Helen Keller without talking about her commitment to a socialist future and opposition to the war of her time is an insult and misleading.

Helen Keller Sunglasses: Insensitive Insult or Respectful Tribute?

It was never about the money. And certainly isn't about helping kids.

It's the type of law written to flush out civil liberties absolutists and cast them as pro-criminal extremists:  Florida and other states passed laws that force public assistance recipients to submit to and pass a drug test.  It has a common sense ring to it - why should the tax payer be supporting somebody's drug habit - but its actually kind of ugly in practice. 

Conservatives that oppose healthcare reform often argue that the welfare state is a soft route to tyranny - the more people are dependent on their government's benefit programs, the more government can coerce them by withholding the benefit.  Yet these seem conservatives lead the way when it comes to turning government programs into mechanisms for tyranny. 

We all benefit from constitutional protections that protect each of us from being treated like criminals when their is no probable cause to do so. In that vein, we're protected from unwarranted searches and seizures.  A search of your bodily fluids certainly falls within those protections. 

So if conservatives are so wary of "big government", why are they the ones looking to make it intrusive?  Why are the conservatives the one's asking you to waive your constitutional rights as condition to receiving a government benefit?  Because "conservatives" - especially those in power - only oppose "big government" when it burdens the businessmen that contribute to their campaigns.  Those same conservatives are all for "big government" when it comes to the individual decisions, personal autonomy, privacy of everyone else. 
 
It's not about the money - the law did not reduce the number of assistance applications and the number of drug users identified was statistically insignificant.  The program cost more than it saved. 

And then there's this:

"The drug testing law was really meant to make sure that kids were protected,"

How exactly are protecting children by making sure their mom - who might already be saddled with a problem - has no money?  You're not.  There's a damn good chance you're hurting those children.

But this law was always about pleasing the people that like to case moral judgements on people, be they judgments about poor people or judgements about people that enjoy themselves too much.  And those judgemental people like to cite the bible, but they lack all of the empathy that book instructs us hold for others.  Worse of all, they're always willing to break a few eggs - hurt people - in the name of righteousness. 

They're monsters, and the only reason they get their way is because the business elites are willing to throw them a bone to keep them voting Republican.


NYT: No Savings Found in Florida We

If there's truth to biblical prophesies to eternal damnation . . . .

the businessman that decided to save money by using live baby chicks as packing materials deserves it.

Live Baby Chicks Used as Packing Peanuts!

Labor judge doesn't know his labor history

Back in the day, the boss would ask you to do a job and then deny you compensation when you got hurt because on the premise that you voluntarily assumed the risk. This ugly defense is one of the reasons people formed unions and why states passed worker compensation laws. Know when I learned that? In 11th grade history. Now, in New Jersey, we have an ALJ denying a janitor his pension because he should have known that moving a large object, as instructed, was dangerous. Disgrace.

http://www.law.com/jsp/nj/PubArticleNJ.jsp?id=1202549307556&et=editorial&bu=New%20Jersey%20Law%20Journal&cn=NJLJ%20Daily%20News%20Alert%3A%20April%2018%2C%202012&src=EMC-Email&pt=New%20Jersey%20Law%20Journal%20Daily%20News%20Alert&kw=WILLFULNESS%20OF%20NEGLIGENCE%20IS%20TEST%20FOR%20DENIAL%20OF%20ACCIDENTAL%20DISABILITY%20PENSION

The fact Obama can credibly pull a question like this off

explains why some people love the guy despite his failings, and some people hate him despite his accomplishments.  

Press asks Obama Kanye or Jay-Z?

“Jay-Z,” he says, as if the answer should be obvious. “Although I like Kanye,” Obama continues, with an easy smile. “He’s a Chicago guy. Smart. He’s very talented.” Even though you called him a jackass?,” I ask. “He is a jackass,” Obama says, in his likable and perfectly balanced modern-professorial voice. “But he’s talented.”

Raps&Hustles » Barack Obama Picks Jay-Z Over Kanye West

Skid Row, Rancid, and the Gilmore Girls

 All relics of a bygone era I saw come and go first hand.  Damn I'm getting old.

Gilmore Girls - Hep Alien tocando Time Bomb, Rancid - YouTube

Double albums kill bands. What does a triple album do?

Beatles only had one studio album (Abbey Road) and some odds and ends (Let It Be) after the white album.

After The Wall, Pink Floyd floundered with the Final Cut after and devolved into a tribute tour with some original members.

Guns & Roses had a Spaghetti Incident after abusing the illusion of two theoretically independent albums.

Everything that followed Smashing Pumpkin's Melancholy depended on electronica gimmicks.

And I hope Greed Day fares even worse!


Green Day to release three-album trilogy beginning late this year – Dying Scene

cock sucking pencil dicked little pieces of shit

The proper title for school officials that feel the need to exercise their petty authority over kids that wear I Love Boobies T-Shirts.

http://www.law.com/jsp/nj/PubArticleNJ.jsp?id=1202548537682&et=editorial&bu=New%20Jersey%20Law%20Journal&cn=NJLJ%20Daily%20News%20Alert%3A%20April%2011%2C%202012&src=EMC-Email&pt=New%20Jersey%20Law%20Journal%20Daily%20News%20Alert&kw=CIRCUIT%20WEIGHS%20VULGARITY%20IN%20%27I%20[HEART]%20BOOBIES%27%20SPEECH%20CASE%20&slreturn=1

The businessmen would turn our daughters to stone if there were profit in it

Instead they just rape their minds over and over, all day and all night, for their entire lives

Killing Us Softly 4 (2010) - 1/2 - YouTube

Also vaseline and spray deoderant

Great tips for any festival concert, camping trip, or hybrid of the two

Music Festival Camping Tips | Filthy Philly

Stupid: spain charging musicians with a crime for insulting the king

even more stupid: the fact Spain still has a king.

Spanish Punk Band Charged with Insults to the King

Rock on

A straight Mormon who once campaigned against same-sex marriage has made a U-turn to become a supporter of marriage equality, and he says his entire church should embrace this position.

Mormon Lawyer: Church Should Embrace Marriage Equality | News | The Advocate

Never read this guy Tucker Max

But he tried to donate half a million to planned parenthood and was denied because he proudly writes of his exploits as a man whore.  Says Max:

I thought Planned Parenthood’s mission was about helping women, not passing judgment on humor.

You'd think with his purported experience with tons of women, he'd realize that some of them don't get the whole "humor" thing.

Tucker Max | Planned Parenthood | Donation | The Daily Caller

Damn liberal media

AP reports Obama's move from opposing an individual mandate as a candidate to his embrace of the mandate as president is a move to the left even though (a) he embraced the mandate as an alternative to the single payer and public options he had earlier espoused (a move to the right), and (b) the primary purpose of the mandate is to protect insurance companies from the costs associated with consumer protections.  The consumer protections may be liberal, but requiring ordinary people to contribute to the profits of businessmen is not - especially when those businessmen are making profit by virtue of their position as middlemen for life saving medical care without adding any value to the system.

False-Equivalence Watch: The Platonic-Ideal Form - James Fallows - Politics - The Atlantic

Peace sells, but who's selling?

Arianna Huffington: Campaign 2012's Biggest Disconnect: Americans Want Out of Afghanistan, Candidates Would Rather Ignore It

Paul Ryan's budget is as fair as it gets

Everyone gets a cut:

it slashes taxes for corporations and the rich while drastically cutting food and medical aid to the needy.

damned liberal media, government

AP reports on the arrest and charge of a man accused of bombing an abortion clinic.  The man was charged with arson.  Neither the charges nor the article speak refer to the act as terrorism or its perpetrator as a terrorist.  Those terms are reserved for scary brown people and college kids that set fur farm animals free.

The Associated Press: Suspect charged in Wis. Planned Parenthood arson

Scalia the activist

But Justice Sonia Sotomayor voiced a view that also seemed to be shared by Justices Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. States that have experimented with similar health care plans, she said, have adjusted those plans as problems occurred.

"Why shouldn't we let Congress do that?" she asked. "What's wrong with leaving it in the hands of the people who should be fixing this, not us?"

Ginsburg later noted that the law contains many provisions that have nothing to do with the individual mandate. "So why should we say: It's a choice between a wrecking operation, which is what you are requesting, or a salvage job?" she said to Clement. "And the more conservative approach would be salvage rather than throwing out everything."

However, Justice Antonin Scalia was skeptical of the "salvage" approach in questions to Deputy Solicitor General Edwin Kneedler, who argued that only the mandate and the guaranteed-issue and community-ratings provisions should be severed if the mandate is unconstitutional.

"Whether we strike it all down or leave some of it in place, the congressional process will never be the same," Scalia said. "One way or another, Congress is going to have to reconsider this, and why isn't it better to have them reconsider it — what should I say — in toto?"

Whose choice as to which is "better" is it Scalia? Yours or Congress? Why should Congress start out as if nothing was passed if something was in fact passed simply because you think it'd be "better" if they started from scratch?

honest question

how do government job residency requirements pass constitutional muster in light of the privileges and immunities clause?

Why I hate authority

Old man's Life Alert badge goes off accidentally, and he winds up dead after police claim he came at them with a knife.  Internal affairs claims the shooting was justified.  Just one problem: life alert recorded the entire exchange and there are two video tapes of what happened.  Turns out the cops got into a pissing match about whether the old man had to let the officers inside - calling him a nigger and ridiculing his military service in the process.  once they got in, he was standing there defenseless - arms in plain view - in nothing but his underwear. the cops tasered him, shot him with a bean bag gun, and then shot him with a regular gun twice in the chest. 

Marine veteran Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. killed after clash with police who responded to his medical emergency - NY Daily News

Problem with Obama care is . . . it hasn't done a damn thing for anyone

I don't know what it did for me. I pay close to $1000.00 per month for my family to have health insurance that covers big and small things - but hits us with high co pays and leaves us out to dry if we have a medical problem with our teeth. That's pretty much what I was paying and receiving before "Obamacare".

My parents get their insurance through my Dad's employer, and they suffer from a high up front deductible that deters routine preventative care - until the burn through more than $1,000 in out of pocket bills, their insurance covers nothing and they still have high co-pays after. The primary reason they work at this point is for that crummy insurance, and any hope they had of retiring was dashed in the second or third round of Obama's compromises to the ass hole Senators in his own party.

So what has Obamacare done for me? Nothing. Along with all the substantive compromises, Obama let the effective date of most of his reforms be set so far into the future that its hard for nearly anyone to quantify their real world impact.

that's why I highly doubt you'll see its defeat by the Supreme court as any sort of rallying point beyond lip service by the faithful. Obama passed a law that didn't have any real impact on most people's lives for years - years in which his detractors could make the case that the program is socialist slavery to those inclined to listen to that sort of thing.