Put Yourself to Bedlam

“I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children.” ~G.W. Bush

I like Facebook. I like keeping a daily tab on what's going on in my friends lives, albeit in blurbs. But - these quizzes...interminable quizzes that take time, then won't give you the answer unless you have it texted to your cell phone (are you serious?!) And THEN they have the hutzpah to ask you to send the quiz to "All of Your Friends!" so that YOU can "compare your answers to your friends!" Gee! That sure sounds like fun! Don't it?

 

What these really are are psych tests designed to build the biggest, most invasive data base of our personal information, including these self imposed psych evaluations as well as our medical records, library history and purchasing habits. All of that information will be sorted and processed by super computers and anyone with authority can summon nearly every aspect of our lives using an internet connection.

Are we blind to the possibilities here? This scale of database will make nazi papers look like report cards.

I may be zen but I'm not stupid.
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Sarah Palin and John McCain are Minions of the New World Order

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1 : a servile dependent, follower, or underling 2 : one highly favored : idol 3 : a subordinate or petty official

It's sickening. This country is clearly doped up on Thorazine. I received this email today that puts things in perspective. I have not checked the accuracy of the facts, but many of them are well known. If anyone reading this can rebut any part of the following, I promise to print the corrections.

"I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight.....

If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're 'exotic, different.'Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American story.

If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim. Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're a maverick.

Graduate from Harvard law School you are unstable. Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well grounded.

If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 2 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.

If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive.

If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian. If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.

If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society. If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very responsible.

If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America's.

If your husband is nicknamed 'First Dude', with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.

OK, much clearer now." (source unavailable)

This campaign is over the top. Ever since 9/11 the GOP has been getting away with murder - literally and figuratively.

WAKE THE HELL UP AMERICA!
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This should be on all the major networks!

See more Gina Gershon videos at Funny or Die

Why Didn't McCain Choose Ann Coulter As His Running Mate?

He may as well have. They're both big mouthed prostitutes for the GOP.

She makes me throw up in my mouth a little.
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Read how she's bitten every hand extended to her (maybe she thought she could get $250!)

“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.” ~John Lennon

Found this on AdBusters and it's a must see ringing as true today as it did in 1969 and for that matter eons before that.

Peace,

XXKHT

"I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately." ~ George Carlin

This is a few days late, I know, but I can't let it go, because George was my absolute favorite.

Like many my age, I used to sit around as a teenager listening to his LPs and getting high with my friends. We laughed and laughed and laughed and have not stopped laughing at (with) him for the quarter century that followed.

The thing that defined his comic genius (and all perfect comedy) was his ability to point out the obvious, call us all out on our hypocrisies and make us laugh at ourselves. There is no better teaching method than humor and I laughed myself all the way to enlightenment via his quirky wisdom.

He'll be sorely missed.
RIP George.
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"There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls." ~GC

Water sampled downstream of a Nebraska feedlot had steroid levels four times as high as the water taken upstream. Male fathead minnows living in that downstream area had low testosterone levels and small heads."

As if we didn't have enough to worry about...

For whatever reason, scientists are just beginning to consider studying the long term impacts of the trace pharmaceuticals found in our drinking water.

Apparently it gets there via our urine which carries the unused portions of our collective drug use back into the  drinking water after it's been "cleansed" and deemed suitable for public consumption. Makes you thirsty, huh?

Of course the Pharm companies are insisting that the "trace" amounts aren't harmful, yet no studies have been made of the long term effects of micro-dosages and so they can't possibly know that.

The drugs found range from antibiotics, athsma meds, anti-inflammatories, heart medicines, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers, tranquilizers, sex hormones and even steroids (the kind the meatheads use to juice). Apparently, the increased use of pharms on animals has compounded the problem.

Bottled water has no standards and is often just bottled tap and traditional home filtration systems aren't effective. Reverse osmosis appears to work but also creates three times as much waste water as it cleanses.

Major cities appear to be the most susceptible, including the Washington DC metropolitan area which was found to have (at least) six pharmaceuticals. The Federal Government currently has no set of standards for limits on drugs in our drinking water. How's THAT for deregulation?!

Hey Washington?! Ever hear the old adage, don't shit in your own nest?

Farging Bastages...
no kisses KHT
AP Probe Finds Drugs in Drinking Water

B'days: Osama Bin Laden (50); Chuck "Another Fist Behind His Chin" Norris (67)

"Tell The Truth"

Love this!

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“Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted..."

...He's making sure you're fully absorbed."*

I don't have television. I generally don't read the national newspapers. As such, it's safe to say that most of the "news" I do read is on the Internet, and like all news sources, one must learn to take things with a grain of salt.

Now, more than ever, the  integrity of a source is not something one can take for granted. The newspaper giants - once proud and powerful enough to take down a crooked presidency - can no longer be relied upon to live up to the journalistic equivalent of the Hippocratic oath, though maybe a hypocritical one.

My approach is to read as much as I can of what's out there, and divine the truth somewhere in the middle. I look for patterns and inconsistencies; double checking the "facts" for myself, before jumping on the witchhunt/bandwagon etc.

Believe it or not, this attitude started long ago with food not politics. I remember as a kid, hearing that peanut butter causes cancer. The news came along at a time when I was just coming to realize how many things allegedly caused cancer, as I noticed they seemed to change weekly. Does everything cause cancer my child self wondered?

I noticed that despite biblical protestations to the contrary, science revealed that bread was all we needed; this was followed by a proclamation that carbs are the enemy. We've been told since childhood that citrus is THE source for vitamin C only to later find in the ever present fine print, that broccoli is even better. Beef is a necessary source of iron but speaking of broccoli....We NEED eight glasses of water a day, but just the other day I heard an argument that this kind of forced drinking can actually cause harm.

These wild vacillations of information bred a healthy suspicion of information at an early age. I learned that the  only reliable thing about the sources was that they would dramatically change their position sooner or later. I learned that the sources sources were the real information you had to look for. Who funded the study was more important than the data itself. As such, I had no choice but to learned only to trust my instincts. (Ok, and Julia Child).

Well, it has come to that same place with politics. I realize it has been this way forever, but I grew up with certain ideas about the righteousness of political coverage. I was actually sitting on a curb on Pennsylvania Ave when Nixon resigned because the powerful Washington Post exposed his corruption. At 8 years old, the event left a potent impression. But these days, everything tastes of propaganda, and to nearly comical effect. Comical that is, if you have a death wish.

Which brings us to the following article from the Associated Piss, which I am regarding with great suspicion:

"Ex-lawmaker charged in terror conspiracy"

WASHINGTON - A former congressman and delegate to the United Nations was indicted Wednesday as part of a terrorist fundraising ring that allegedly sent more than $130,000 to an al-Qaida and Taliban supporter who has threatened U.S. and international troops in Afghanistan.

In the indictment, the government alleges that IARA employed a man who had served as a fundraising aide to Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaida leader and mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks*

After the irresistible headline, the first thing I noticed was the photo which appears to be from this guy's high school yearbook. A fresh faced boy, not a Reagan era republican senator, peers at you smiling geekily as the headlines announce he's been indicted as a lobbyist for terrorists...and darn it! those terrorists are tricky and can fool even little Markie Siljander. Who's next? What's to be done about it?!

The entire thing stinks of a cover up. Citizens are becoming curiouser and curiouser about the "irrelevant" money trail related to the incidents leading up to and after September 11, 2001 and out of the blue we have senator-boy who was paid in laundered money from the government through a charity that supported Bin Laden himself. WHAT?!

I read somewhere that reading the news causes cancer.

XXKHT

*Chuck Palahniuk quotes (American freelance Journalist, Satirist and Novelist. b.1961)

"Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you; who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder." ~ The Great Dictator

In response to Walmart's smiley face copyright battle, Make Magazine posted this YouTube video featuring Mr. Smiley himself in his first serious role, reading from The Great Dictator - Charlie Chaplin's satire about Nazi Germany where he plays a poor Jewish barber that is a doppleganger to the dictator "Adenoid Henkyl."

I haven't seen the film yet, but with character names like Garbitsch and Mr. Agar, you can bet I'm gonna go right out and rent it. There's even a dictator of Bacteria, named Benzini Napolini; delightfully unsubtle, I'd say.

All Hail Herr Smiley!
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