Congress to hear the inconvenient truth.
By on Feb 2nd, 2007 at 9:27 pm
Congress to hear the inconvenient truth.
“Former Vice President Al Gore has accepted an invitation to testify next month in a congressional hearing on the highly controversial issue of climate change. … Gore will appear at a joint hearing on Wednesday, March 21. He will be the only witness to appear before the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality and the Science and Technology Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.”
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Will the shrub forbid the thug member to attend?
February 2nd, 2007 at 9:31 pmGo, Al, Go!
Can I go and watch them squirm?
February 2nd, 2007 at 9:31 pmFinally!
Now that the adults are in charge, it’s time to hear the inconvenient truth.
February 2nd, 2007 at 9:39 pmBy the way, ThinkProgress….I like the fact that new threads are showing up later in the day!
February 2nd, 2007 at 9:39 pmI like that there are also more threads during the day as well, TP and BnF.
Kinda digging the new leaders.
February 2nd, 2007 at 9:44 pm:)
Good. It will be interesting to see and hear Al Gore do what he does best: speak and discuss information in an intelligent manner. What a breath of fresh air the guy is.
February 2nd, 2007 at 10:00 pmI wish I had my cable back…. :(
I agree trueblue & Briseadh na Faire, we don’t usually get this many threads a day — especially on a Friday. It’s all good. :)
February 2nd, 2007 at 10:05 pmCool that should be interesting hearing and then Al Gore can announce his run for the presidency in 2008.
February 2nd, 2007 at 10:34 pmWhat a nice late B-Day present for me – mine’s March 20th – first day of spring. Triplets were born on DDay (the day of the invasion) and little sister on Halloween. Dad was Bastille Day and mom, Pearl Harbor day (a bit before or after they were born, but they both had the date right).
February 2nd, 2007 at 10:34 pmI like Al Gore. Go Al!!
February 2nd, 2007 at 10:37 pmoh I love it. Al is the right person at the right time in the right place.
February 2nd, 2007 at 10:41 pmhey, Zooey.
All these threads – on a Friday even!
Woo-Hoo, are we spoiled tonight.
February 2nd, 2007 at 10:48 pm:)
Al Gore has more credibility in a single nose hair than every Bush, Cheney, or insert war criminal here….that’s ever sullied this once great nation.
I’d like to see a Gore/Edwards ticket but Gore’s veep days are done and JE is already in. Two smart, decent, Southern men (stereotypes be damned)…
February 2nd, 2007 at 10:54 pmGORE / FEINGOLD
GORE / EDWARDS
GORE / OBAMA
Take yer pick or ad more.
February 2nd, 2007 at 10:54 pmWoo-Hoo, are we spoiled tonight.
:)
Comment by trueblue
I’m always spoiled, but that goes without saying…. :)
February 2nd, 2007 at 10:56 pmThe only thing that concerns me about Al Gore is that he may try to play cute for too long. With any of the Democratic contenders as Veep, he could restore this Nations standing in the World in half of a term. As a vice, he should choose a woman – not Hillary – as a running mate. Pelosi looks positive at this time.
February 2nd, 2007 at 10:58 pmI’m always spoiled, but that goes without saying…. :)
Comment by Zooey
“Yes, Mistress Zooey.
February 2nd, 2007 at 11:02 pmShall I send in the kilted ones now?”
#14 s
not to be a spoiler, but …
Clinton/Gore
Gore/Clinton
February 2nd, 2007 at 11:03 pm“Yes, Mistress Zooey.
Shall I send in the kilted ones now?â€
Comment by trueblue
You been holding out on me, true?
If they don’t mind me coughing and sneezing on them, go for it!
February 2nd, 2007 at 11:04 pmI like they way they frame this as a “highly controversial issue “. Anyone who has seen the scientific evidence from the multitude of sources or even heard any of the so called “debate” on the issue of global warming knows that there is no controversy here.
It reminds me of the “highly controversial issue ” of evolution. Ut’s Scopes monkey all over again only this time the outcome is much more critical to the future of us all.
February 2nd, 2007 at 11:04 pmSo, is Jason Fact Mangler waiting for his invite to the Sentate committee?
Zooey – celebrate the pod cast, worship the podcast, blessed be the podcast.
February 2nd, 2007 at 11:05 pmAshenShard,
As long as that Clinton is Bill and not Hillary, I’m good.
February 2nd, 2007 at 11:05 pmEdwards/Obama
Feingold/Edwards
Feingold/Obama
I know Feingold said he wouldn’t run, but I’m dreaming….
February 2nd, 2007 at 11:06 pmZooey – celebrate the pod cast, worship the podcast, blessed be the podcast.
Comment by TerrytheTurtle
Please enlighten me, Great Turtle.
What the hell is a podcast?
February 2nd, 2007 at 11:08 pmWalt….he’s not playing cute. The scuttlebutt is that he if he were to announce now: 1. he would probably not get an oscar because it would be seen as too political, 2. he would enter the line of fire – attacks before he needs to, 3 he wants to put his energy into global warming right now and would not be able to , 4 he wouldn’t have the chance to truly see the lay of the land – how things are shaking out , 5 he has famous Democratic agents ready to back him already and is not going to hurt AT ALL for support financially, and 6 he is going to get so much press from A. His new book: The Assault on Reason B. The possible oscar C. The ( granted ) possible Nobel peace prize that he would not lack for visibility.
It is also not techincally late yet. He is wise to wait…plus he is genuinely weighing things…he is not playing cute.
February 2nd, 2007 at 11:08 pmAre you for Edwards / Obama Zooey? :)
s
February 2nd, 2007 at 11:10 pmZooey, same way I watch John Stewart – wait for Crooks and Liars to cut the relevant segment and stick it up on the wen for me to hook up to on the web – dial up to pc or cell download to Treo – I get my gen, without worshipping the one-eyed idiot box…
February 2nd, 2007 at 11:11 pmI can imagine that Senator In-hoax is having a temper tantrum–maybe pulling his hair out.
February 2nd, 2007 at 11:13 pm#22 trueblue
Actually, I was referring to Hillary, but more as a realistic joke than a preference. :-p
February 2nd, 2007 at 11:15 pmThought so, AshenShard,
February 2nd, 2007 at 11:22 pmand I share in the realistic joke!
(Bill would be the modern day equivilant to Tipper Gore?! Hahaha)
Are you for Edwards / Obama Zooey? :)
Comment by s
My first pick!
February 2nd, 2007 at 11:23 pmNot to be a downer,
But has anyone seen Jane or Wayne Schneider at all this week?
They emailed me that they were both pretty ill, (Jane with pneumonia, Wayne with Bronchitis).
They were hoping to return Tuesday.
February 2nd, 2007 at 11:26 pmI haven’t been around because of trolls and the Libby trial.
yup…skimmed it too fast…….
:)
February 2nd, 2007 at 11:26 pmGreat Turtle,
Huh?
Are you saying I should just watch the clip on C&L? I guess I could open another tab and let the thing download while I’m doing something else.
Oy. I have a fever. I’m going to bed.
Thanks, Great Turtle. :)
February 2nd, 2007 at 11:28 pmyup…skimmed it too fast…….
:)
Comment by s
You don’t hang on my every word? **sniff**
February 2nd, 2007 at 11:29 pmOur Zooey is obviously sick.
Let’s all send her thoughts of men in kilts, catering to her every whim, making her feel better.
OK – for the guys – just wish her well.
February 2nd, 2007 at 11:33 pm;)
Men in kilts…..what could be better? sigh :)
February 2nd, 2007 at 11:42 pmBonnie
#25 – s,
February 2nd, 2007 at 11:43 pmHe is holding back (playing cute) right now. The problem is that the field is forming, an unprecedented 19 months before the contest and a year before the first primaries. If you track prior campaigns, we are running about six to seven months ahead in the process. When I was a boy, the process kicked off in November, now it precedes Spring. It’s like seeing Easter things in the stores before Valentines.
My dad was Canadian of Scottish decent….I have his pipes.
and Yeah, I hang on your every word Zoo ;)
February 2nd, 2007 at 11:44 pmMo Do shelves her usual snark to write about the 2007 NIE and how hopeless the situation seems to be in Iraq.
February 2nd, 2007 at 11:50 pmWalt,
I’m sure he is watching the timing closely. AlGore.org is going to be the main site to watch I believe. ( He reads it regularly according to Tipper….I hear) The only reason I know these things is I’m part of a draft Gore group and talk to a lot of people. 2 cents etc.
I bet he announces in the spring. It won’t be too late, idon’t think.
This is for Zooey. :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8xrprMAgi8
February 2nd, 2007 at 11:52 pmS, I’m off to th sack. If that is you with the pipes, get a tan! The last time I was over there, the Scots were almost brown from the lower thighs down. I never looked higher for fear of what I would find.
February 3rd, 2007 at 12:10 amHe will be the only witness to appear before the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality and the Science and Technology Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.â€
It seems Gore isn`t as popular as some here would like to make him seem. He only drew two SUBcommittees to testify on.
Hell, even Ralph Nader has testified on subcommittees.
This is an important story how?
Are you people still feeding off of Al`s breadcrumb trail that he has been leaving worldwide since his stunning upset in the 2000 election?
February 3rd, 2007 at 12:24 amKinda digging the new leaders.
:)
Comment by trueblue
Kiss Ass Activist. aka-KAA
Yup that`s you.
Nothing more needs said really.
February 3rd, 2007 at 12:28 amNuff said.
and Yeah, I hang on your every word Zoo ;)
Comment by s
Obviously “s” stands for “stupid”.
February 3rd, 2007 at 12:30 am# 32 True,
February 3rd, 2007 at 12:31 amI visited Wayne’s blog and he posted saying that he is blocked from computer at work so can’t post his blog or on TP any more. *sniffles* They will be missed until they return.
Kiss Ass Activist. aka-KAA
Yup that`s you.(trueblue)
Comment by blue gina
OH SNAP, CA CHING !
February 3rd, 2007 at 12:35 amhe is blocked from computer at work
Comment by Bluedahlia — February 3, 2007 @ 12:31 am
That’s what his sorry ass gets for wasting time at work.
February 3rd, 2007 at 12:39 amSurely he’ll provide plenty of alarmist quotes inspired by Dr George Lakoff and over-representations of possible climate scenarios and call them facts. I hope someone asks him about that hurricane coming out of a smoke stack.
“So Mr Gore, would that be a Tennessee Valley Authority smoke stack?”
February 3rd, 2007 at 12:43 amJohn Dingell. Climate skeptic. Bought, paid for and married to the General Motors Foundation.
“If you used every nickel’s worth of corn that this country produces, you could only have 70 percent of the fuel it takes to run the American transportation fleet. Do you want to eat corn bread and corn syrup and have your beef fed with corn, or do you want to ride around in a car?”
February 3rd, 2007 at 12:58 amTroll alert has jacked my name.
February 3rd, 2007 at 1:54 amnot whoever is posting under my name
Comment by Joanie Doe ®™ — February 3, 2007 @ 1:42 am
or maybe it is really me.
you know how I like to trick ya.
i wish this ritalin would wear off.
February 3rd, 2007 at 1:59 amBarfly has jacked my name.
February 3rd, 2007 at 2:02 amJason Hendler has jacked my name.
February 3rd, 2007 at 2:05 amAttention
posts 53 ONWARDS are not mine. this is the REAL joanie doe. I take no responsibility with what this poster is allwoed to do with my name.
February 3rd, 2007 at 2:08 amIt will be wonderful to hear what Gore has to say post Ides of March. I don’t think he’ll hold back. And for those who call for Gore in ‘08, it’s a nice pipedream, but I think he’s more powerful just where he is: A true voice for this planet’s well being.
Theresa
February 3rd, 2007 at 2:17 amAttention
never mind # 56,my ritaln has kicked in and i’m just havin fun with myself. barfly can you come out and play?
February 3rd, 2007 at 2:30 amAn Inconvenient Truth comes to the right conclusions about the seriousness of global warming; plus we ought to be grateful these days for anything earnest at the cineplex. But the film flirts with double standards. Laurie David, doyenne of Rodeo Drive environs, is one of the producers. As Eric Alterman noted in the Atlantic, David “reviles owners of SUVs as terrorist enablers, yet gives herself a pass when it comes to chartering one of the most wasteful uses of fossil-based fuels imaginable, a private jet.” For David to fly in a private jet from Los Angeles to Washington would burn about as much petroleum as driving a Hummer for a year; if she flew back in the private jet, that’s two Hummer-years. Gore’s movie takes shots at Republicans and the oil industry, but by the most amazing coincidence says nothing about the poor example set by conspicuous consumers among the Hollywood elite. Broadly, An Inconvenient Truth denounces consumerism, yet asks of its audience no specific sacrifice. “What I look for is signs we are really changing our way of life, and I don’t see it,” Gore intones with his signature sigh. As he says this, we see him at an airport checking in to board a jet, where he whips out his laptop. If “really changing our way of life” is imperative, what’s Gore doing getting on a jetliner? Jets number among the most resource-intensive objects in the world.
This raises the troubling fault of An Inconvenient Truth: its carelessness about moral argument. Gore says accumulation of greenhouse gases “is a moral issue, it is deeply unethical.” Wouldn’t deprivation also be unethical? Some fossil fuel use is maddening waste; most has raised living standards. The era of fossil energy must now give way to an era of clean energy. But the last century’s headlong consumption of oil, coal, and gas has raised living standards throughout the world; driven malnourishment to an all-time low, according to the latest U.N. estimates; doubled global life expectancy; pushed most rates of disease into decline; and made possible Gore’s airline seat and MacBook, which he doesn’t seem to find unethical. The former vice president clicks up a viewgraph showing the human population has grown more during his lifetime than in all previous history combined. He looks at the viewgraph with aversion, as if embarrassed by humanity’s proliferation. Population growth is a fantastic achievement-though one that engenders problems we must fix, including inequality and greenhouse gases. Gore wants to have it that the greener-than-thou crowd is saintly, while the producers of cars, power, food, fiber, roads, and roofs are appalling. That is, he posits a simplified good versus a simplified evil. Just like a movie!
February 3rd, 2007 at 2:34 amNotice how the faux pas Joanie Doe didn`t start using the trademark and copyright seal of , the real Joanie Doe until I started to?
Joanie Doe ®™
Starting at post 51 is the real mc coy.
February 3rd, 2007 at 2:46 amStarting at post 51 is the real mc coy,or is it.
you know how i like to game ya.
February 3rd, 2007 at 2:56 amNotice how the faux pas Joanie Doe didn`t start using the trademark and copyright seal of , the real Joanie Doe until I started to?
Joanie Doe ®™
Oh almost forgot!
Now I can activate my tracking device and follow you wherever you go. Wherever and whenever you surf, I`ll be there. Silently watching from a distance your every move, your every nuance, your every keystroke.
And by the way, I know who you are. I know everything about your computer and your connection.
Happy surfing and thanks for picking up the copyright and trademark seal and allowing my tacking device to be planted on your hard drive. A reformat won`t even get rid of it.
Notice in my post 58. The TM seal is missing on purpose?
As soon as the imposter copied and pasted it into the name box and clicked ” Post I Agree ” , as soon as this person clicked POST
from that moment on I claimed that posters machine.
I can`t believe anyone would be so dumb as to miss a nuance like that. Oh well.
Happy surfing.
Don`t go anywhere I wouldn`t.
Literally. Sarcasm/OFF
February 3rd, 2007 at 3:04 amOh almost forgot!
I borrowed my moms ritalin and my moms oxy contin.
this stuff rocks.
i live in moms basement with my own supply of cheetos.
February 3rd, 2007 at 3:28 amThat is, he posits a simplified good versus a simplified evil. Just like a movie!
Comment by global warming yea right
Well, he’s just playing to an audience that sucked up “drones of death,” mobile weapons laboratories, and smoking gun/mushroom cloud rhetoric like it was creamed corn. If the film isn’t given some plotlike structure, the yahoos’ minds will wander; these 30%’ers need to be scared to hold their attention, otherwise, their focus shifts to Superbowl halftime shows, get rich quick schemes, and the latest MILF.
February 3rd, 2007 at 4:01 amIt is not ‘climate change,’ it is global warming. Climate change is a neutral Republican term
February 3rd, 2007 at 4:03 amUmm Joanie, not sure what your talking about with a TM mark. It’s simply a font, an ascii letter. If you were to look at it in a TCP packet it would nothing more than a hexidecimal.
It cannot track your computer and it will not survive a reformat, it does not stay in RAM memory (TSR or terminate and stay resident)
You cannot track or know everthing about a persons connection with it. TP does put a cookie on your hard drive, thru your browser that can follow one (footprint)
The TM font is not a BHO (browser helper object) and it has nothing to do with Active X.
6d65 7269 6361 6e70 726f 6772 6573 732e mericanprogress.
6d would be an M in hex. 65 an E, 72 an R etc…
Notice in my post 58. The TM seal is missing on purpose?
As soon as the imposter copied and pasted it into the name box and clicked †Post I Agree †, as soon as this person clicked POST
from that moment on I claimed that posters machine.
I can`t believe anyone would be so dumb as to miss a nuance like that. Oh well.
Happy surfing.
This is utter nonsense and you cannot tell me anything of my connection thru a font.
Why you are posting such nonsense I don’t know why. I guess maybe you think people will freak out and see you as all powerful when you are not. If you are so all powerful, here is your â„¢
Now tell me what sites I have been to and all about my connection, and stop this inane crush your head talk trying to make people paranoid talk.
February 3rd, 2007 at 4:18 amTell me Joanie, real or fake, about my computer. Anyone with windows (most version) can simply click run then start then type charmap and use the fonts found in the character map.
Umm Joanie, not sure what your talking about with a TM mark. It’s simply a font, an ascii letter. If you were to look at it in a TCP packet it would nothing more than a hexidecimal.
It cannot track your computer and it will not survive a reformat, it does not stay in RAM memory (TSR or terminate and stay resident)
You cannot track or know everthing about a persons connection with it. TP does put a cookie on your hard drive, thru your browser that can follow one (footprint)
The TM font is not a BHO (browser helper object) and it has nothing to do with Active X.
6d65 7269 6361 6e70 726f 6772 6573 732e mericanprogress.
6d would be an M in hex. 65 an E, 72 an R etc…
Notice in my post 58. The TM seal is missing on purpose?
As soon as the imposter copied and pasted it into the name box and clicked †Post I Agree †, as soon as this person clicked POST
from that moment on I claimed that posters machine.
I can`t believe anyone would be so dumb as to miss a nuance like that. Oh well.
Happy surfing.
This is utter nonsense and you cannot tell me anything of my connection thru a font.
™ ™ ™ ™ ™ ™ ™ ™™ ™ ™ ™™ ™ ™ ™
Now tell me what sites I have been to and all about my connection
February 3rd, 2007 at 4:22 am0×0490 2541 322b 2545 3225 3834 2541 322b 2545
There is your ‘TM’ in hex =)
February 3rd, 2007 at 4:35 amTMâ„¢ is also alt+0153 (keypad)
February 3rd, 2007 at 4:45 amHillary Clinton, Stand-Up Comedian?
Hillary Clinton drew laughs while campaigning in Iowa when she seemingly made a joke at her husband’s expense.
Responding to a questioner who asked whether she was capable of handling evildoers like Osama bin Laden, Clinton said with a grin, “What in my background equips me to deal with evil and bad men?” Watch the video clip http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2830652 plus read Clinton’s explanation of her quip
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/am-clintonside0129,0,2397639.story?coll=ny-main-bigpix.
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Conan O’Brien: “Yesterday, on a campaign trip, Hillary Clinton suggested that she knows how to deal with evil and bad men, like Osama bin Laden, because she had to put up with her husband. Which explains why Hillary wants to look for bin Laden at the nearest Hooters.” Read more late-night jokes about Hillary
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/hillaryclinton/a/hillaryclinton.htm
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Speaking of gaffes, check out this video of Hillary Clinton bidding to become the next American Idol by singing a stirring rendition of the National Anthem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfZ_gXCHaMw
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The Comedic Stylings of George W. Bush
President Bush cracked a few jokes at the annual Alfalfa club dinner over the weekend. The Washington Post has n excerpt: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/01/30/BL2007013000803_5.html
“As always, I’m delighted to be back at Alfalfa. When I was here last year, my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the Supreme Court had just withdrawn and my vice president had shot someone — ah, those were the good old days.
“What with the polls and everything, the Washington Post said the other day that I was, quote, ‘at the nadir of my presidency.’ The press always underestimates me. I can go lower.”
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February 3rd, 2007 at 4:59 amJet Mech
So you have a hex key converter and can convert to keypad also.
Big deal.
Goodbye turd.
Big Flushing sound from my toilet.
Troll.
February 3rd, 2007 at 5:01 amPS,
Nice sites you visit.
Can I come along?
Bwahahahahahah!!!!
February 3rd, 2007 at 5:02 amBest news ever!
This is my generation’s hero. Is there any way we can show support for him? He’s going to be seeing a lot of tough faces in congress..
February 3rd, 2007 at 9:18 amJoanie – TP may not be the right place for you if you are here to be popular. Most of us are here to discuss politics. Occasionally, we do get off topic or ask about one another on a personal level – but when thread after thread is filled with complaints about how you are not accept here, maybe the question to ask yourself is if you could find a blog that is better suited for your needs rather than try to force this place to accommodate you?
Nothing personal – but it just seems obvious that you’d be happier somewhere less political and more social.
To the name jacker – ditto – but with the recommendation that you find a site devoted to mental health and therapy for sociopathic behavior.
February 3rd, 2007 at 9:23 am#73… Al can handle Congress. He’s a pro and I agree… my generation’s genuine hero!!
February 3rd, 2007 at 9:35 amyawn – more propaganda from the elites ….
they’ll do anything to control us serfs
just keep debating each other and remain distracted from investigating what the elites are doing to control us
sheeple
February 3rd, 2007 at 10:40 amThis is for Zooey. :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8xrprMAgi8
Comment by s
Cool. Thanks s. :)
February 3rd, 2007 at 10:47 amI wonder if the “faker-in-chief” will be following President Gore’s testimony?
February 3rd, 2007 at 12:09 pmJoanie – TP may not be the right place for you if you are here to be popular.
Comment by unbelievable — February 3, 2007 @ 9:23 am
Project much?
Or are you just speaking from personal experience.
February 3rd, 2007 at 12:38 pmHex Converter? No it’s called a packet sniffer. The windows charmap program tells you what the keypad combination (alt+0xxx) is.
I signed off after my post and visited no sites other than this one.
Debunk #1
I used only my moniker and no one elses
Debunk#2
As I suspected your not anywhere close to being a hack and understand nothing about transport control protocols or user datagram protocol, nor of hexidecimals and fonts TP does not, as say MSN chat (MIRC) allow one to see anothers IP adresss.
Debunk #3
You have been debunked. Thoroughly.
February 3rd, 2007 at 1:05 pmProject much?
Or are you just speaking from personal experience.
Comment by Joanie Doe ® — February 3, 2007 @ 12:38 pm
That tactic doesn’t work when it isn’t true…
Don’t get your feelings hurt. I wasn’t being mean – just honest. I’m sure I wouldn’t be happy at a lot of other blogs – which is why I don’t go there. Just think about it.
February 3rd, 2007 at 1:09 pmI hear alot of the posters here think the same about you. And I like it here, I think I will stay.
The voices in your head don’t post here…
Thanks for caring.
I don’t care. You’re just clearly not happy here and since a lot of people are complaining about you gumming up the threads, it seems to be a win-win situation for you to go somewhere else.
BFF?
Best Friends Forever?
Comment by Joanie Doe ® — February 3, 2007 @ 2:48 pm
I’m 40, not 14.
February 3rd, 2007 at 3:00 pmhttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=spudge
Urban Dictionary: spudgeJoe enjoyed squeezing the spudge out of his blackheads. … verb – to spudge. I spudge, we spudge, they spudge, you spudge, he/she/it spudges. …
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=spudge – Similar pages
No more needs said really.
Nuff said.
Joanie Doe ®™
February 3rd, 2007 at 6:15 pmit seems to be a win-win situation for you to go somewhere else.
Comment by unbelievable — February 3, 2007 @ 3:00 pm
Make me.
February 3rd, 2007 at 6:17 pmPfffft.
Das Manifest
“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.
Some men you just can’t reach.” -Strother Martin
Above any programming skill, security system or computer hardware knowledge (some of us don’t even know a shit about computers), we all share the same disgust about the lack of respect and the perpetual repression made among us, our peers and our race in general. A world afloat in lies and more lies, in public opinion manipulation, corruption, reality alleviators and so-called needs designed by a few marketing graduates and psychologists who learned pretty well how to use the remaining human innate skills in order to hook the people and use them as tools to perpetuate their absolute monarchy. This is how the hive protects itself from evolution. The queen doesn’t have to fight to stay king of the hill, workers fight each others, the same way we does, getting trained to see each other into one single dimension, to see each other in binary, a combination of 011010 and XX or XY ultimately creating the illusion of a human frame. That process is going on from such a long time that most of us actually trained themselves and succeeded to become that kind of pathetic array of binary coding… “Should I choose between the face lift or these silicone tips? Or let’s get both…” and you will be the idiot getting excited by her new binary array next week. No place left for feelings. In fact, you now have to pay to buy your feelings daily to fill up the empty spaces of your 9 to 5 nightmare. Feelings has become a business in itself and you can be sure an healthy-food psychologist faggot will end up cashing them into a brand new BMW convertible to show how many tormented souls he pretends he cured. A dumb blind confederation of suburban idiots congratulating themselves having the same blood type than Tom Cruise and a larger swimming pool than next door’s neighbor.
Everything has become easy enough to allow the dumbest otist to do whatever kind of activity they can actually pay for. Universities and college-level schools now promotes “learning disorders” with special bursaries while most of the true lunatics end up screwed in the administrative catch 22. This is what our “democracy” is about: leaving our faith in the hand of any two-legged brainless monkey. The word “democracy” itself became the worst buzzword of all. Why worrying you might wonder? “Life’s just too short anyway” you say, and if you think too much, you might end up missing your daily sitcom on your 27″ digital flat screen. Time factor has nothing to do and there is no justification for allowing senselessness. People are getting brain-dead to the point where they are actually paying to advertise the shit they are consuming at a depressing rate. Society has became a huge McDonald’s. Everybody has become similar under the neon lights that irradiates shafts of broken glass. The way the Industrialized North pulls the strings with that “globalisation” process is such that if a painter would mix his entire color palette into one big melting pot leading to a disgusting uniform brownish tone. And when something looks brown, smells like shit and tastes like shit, chances are good that this thing turns out to be shit. This is precisely what is happening from too much uniformity, this race for nationalism and the way we have to mass-market any kind of processed junk all around the planetary beehive.
People are getting crazy, everywhere it’s getting worse. Between a life based on the latest hollywood crappy scenario and their own personnal twisted minds corrupted by a childhood being driven by Kraft processed cheese and happy purple dinosaurs singing non-sences. The problem arises from far behind the fact that the regulations that outline our lives are sketched by a buch of individuals who lives in skycrapers and gather an overwelming wealth from exploiting the average. The real enemy is this average itself, the John Doe who allow these opportunists to screw us up until “we will be so poor and cowed that when They will come to take away our kids we won’t complain, but thank them” as stated by the Reverant Stang. You may think you are in a free country with free speech and free press… Get real, you are free to choose between NBC (owned by Microsoft and G.E. who also owns FOX Network), ABC (owned by Disney) or CBS (owned by Viacom who also owns MTV, Paramount, Famous Players, Blockbusters and name it). Useless to say that these few corps also owns thousands of radio stations, cable/local tv networks, movie/music distribution companies, magazines, major newspapers and so on… well, they own about anything you could possibly imagine. As a matter of fact, it is obvious that there is always somewhere a bigger fish. It has also been obvious that 1984 happened way back in ‘53. Media control is just another step towards mind control. The collective alienation reflects itself in every single aspect of our disfunctional society so that we each other become our own enemies. As stated by Albert Parsons, “formerly the master selected the slave; today the slave selects his master”.
You might say “ahh, that’s just another 21 years old left freak that took Marx too seriously” well, there was indeed a time I enjoyed myself going to the movies and looking at Rambo digging holes in dozens of Vietcong, but then you realized that these Vietnamese are now forced to shoot defoliant and herbicide that will end up in their irrigation system in the cotton crop they are forced to grow and ship overseas to be bleached somewhere where there is no regulation about the use of carcinogenic chlorine bleach. You realize that this bleached cotton crop is then sent to sweatshops in Pakistan where 1.5 million children from 10 to 14 years old catch contagious diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis for being packed into insane conditions for transforming the cotton into fabric that is going to be sent to Bangladesh in a free trade zone factory where they pay a father who has to fed his 12 children because he doesn’t know shit about contraceptives 30 cents an hour of grunt work to sew the damn fabric and ship it to your beloved USA who decides to move the damn plant to Mexico where workers got cancers after spending half of their lives printing the Tommy logo on the goddamn piece of fabric that end up with a production cost of about one hundredth of its selling price that you are going to pay at the mall you are mindlessly shopping every Friday evening. You are not supposed to know that, but you just knew it and once you know something, you cannot unknow it.
What does that has to do with a little team of pseudo-hackers playing with a few softwares in their filthy basement you might wonder. Well, we think that if everybody works in the same way, hackers as well as any other citizen living under the post-modern rise of the megacorporations, we might eventually stop performing these murders and insanities at a massive scale and start using our monkey smartness for something else than our own dumb selves. Forget about which republican or democrat clone puppet you will vote for, which clone car you will buy or whatever else self-centered activity. Turn off your tv and stop thinking about what AT&T and G.E. want you to think about and start using the remaining not-yet-altered part of your brain for a collective purpose.
- The Crimson King 02/04/2007
February 4th, 2007 at 2:44 am