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Dial 1-800-ALQ-AEDA and ask to speak to George W. Bush.

Hope this helps,
Kilgore Trout.

Consider starting a Slashdot Journal if you want a blog that will be noticed here. I hope that increases my score.

The Huffington Post blog has good story selection but comments are moderated. The moderators will not publish comments that they find unacceptable.

Oddly, each and every comment that's published there is flagged abusive. Hundreds and hundreds of 'em. I don't know why. A bug, maybe. So there's a stigma even if your comment gets past the moderators.

Slashdot could teach the Huffington Post a thing or two. This could be my highest score ever.

True - and it's exactly like every other tax-supported network, such as roads and the mail system. These projects are ultra-critical national infrastructure, and they seem to do just fine with public support.

It's telling that these other systems also have "neutrality," and it works extremely well. The USPS has no interest in delaying your parcel by two weeks. Every driver on the freeway is bound by the same set of rules. And guess what - when we need extra capacity, the taxpayers buy it! What's wrong with that system?

The difference is that unlike these government projects, the internet backbone is almost entirely privatized. It's true that ultraconservatives ordinarily support privatization as "more efficient" than government support. But haven't we recently seen some phenomenally anti-consumer behavior in privatized industries? And this administration is hardly a "typical" conservative gang - the federal bureaucracy has grown explosively under its leadership. Odd, that. I guess it depends whether the heads of the corporate shepherds are your friends.

The problem, as future economic historians will state in tragic retrospect, is that unlike the federal government, private corporations do not have their customers' best interests at heart - often they're in direct conflict. We don't put Microsoft in charge of our missile defense network, because every 20 minutes, they'd be hassling the federal government to pay their monthly licensing fees for the laser-guidance software!

It's more evidence of our shameful government that has completely discarded the notion of serving the people.

- David Stein

Honestly, I don't understand how a conservative government can increase the size of government this much, and ask for internet regulations, I mean it does not follow the philosophy at all. Am I the only libertarian here?

It's not just a conservative government, it's compassionately conservative. Let me point out charitably that Karl Rove has got your number if you think Bush II's government is conservative. You were snookered.

The truth is that this "conservative" government is crowing today about enormous budget deficits coming down a fraction (when we were balanced under Clinton), while ignoring long-term structural deficits caused by tax cuts for the richest Americans that have only increased the wage gap over the last several years. Throwing cash around like water, paying off Halliburton and Big Pharma and scumbags like Abramoff and on and on... how much evidence do you need of the mendacity involved in labeling the profligate Bush government "fiscally conservative"?

I will point out, however, that the conservative movement has had free rein to choose its policies. If the ship has run aground, we know who has been at the wheel. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rick-perlstein/i-did nt-like-nixon-_b_11735.html

If you want a fiscally conservative government, kick out the neocons and vote for some Democrats. Or you could vote for the Greens, it worked in 2000.

Oh yes, that horrible Democratic corruption which stains dresses, makes cigars smell like fish, and relieves the president's pent up tension after working all night to pass a budget after the god-fearing Republicans shut down the government. I forgot to mention that. Thanks for reminding me.

I Miss Monica - Ode to an intern.

<sarcasm>I'm glad to know you Republican ass-holes are still fighting the good fight against consentual blow-jobs. Blow jobs kill a lot more people than senseless wars, and they cost taxpayers much more than $293,646,760,794. I'm glad you have your priorities straight, and that you aren't hipocrits for hold double standards.</sarcasm>

-Don

PS: <truth>Ann Coulter is a MAN, baby! And if you want to fuck her, then you're gay!<truth>

Let me see if I get this straight...

1. Man gets property broken into more than once
2. Man installs camera and warning signs on property to thwart future break-ins
3. Cops arrive at man's house on unrelated issue to talk to 15-year old son
4. Man is uncooperative and cops try to get into the house by sticking foot in door
5. After refusing entry, cops promise to return with a warrant
6. Man reminds cops that there is a camera recording them at the doorstep
7. Man reports abusive officers to precinct with videotape in hand to prove it
8. Man is arrested for 'wiretap fraud', a felony in the US of A.

Let's parallel that with another person we all know so well:

1. Holding over 300 prisoners in Guantanamo Bay prison without charging them with a crime for years on end
2. Ok'd the illegal NSA wiretap over 30 times, and would do it again. After 5 years of monitoring every single Internet packet, they are exposed and hide the details under the guise of 'State Secrets'.
3. 5+ years of bank data was secretly funneled and reviewed without a warrant or subponea
4. Signed over 750 Signing Statements, more than double the number of ALL PREVIOUS PRESIDENTS combined
5. Advocated, financed and supported the torture of innocent people in the name of 'national security', and tries to pass a signing statement to legalize torture.
6. Funded an illegal war to depose the leader of Iraq, so we could use Iraq as a base from which to stage a local air strike against Iran and Syria for oil. Doing daddy's work, apparently.
7. Lost $9 BILLION dollars in Iraq, then halts the investigation into it.
8. Openly stated that the Constitution is ...just a goddamn piece of paper, and continues to violate it every day.
9. ...and dozens more.

Tell me why again, this one citizen, who is protecting his property (yes, he's been verbally abusive to the cops before, but verbal abuse is not a felony or a crime, in fact, unless you directly threaten the safety of the officers or someone else) is arrested, and this unqualified, election-rigging, law-breaking "individual" is still allowed to run this country into the ground?

The other ironic point to this madness, is that the current rhetoric is that this country is 'safer now than it has ever been'. However, the truth is that this country is now more unstable, partisan, fractured than it has ever been.

There have only been TWO terrorist attacks on domestic soil by foreign terrorists in the last 40 PRESIDENTS.. and get this:

1. Both attacks occurred were under Bush presidency (Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. 10 years later)
2. Both attacks occurred at the Twin Towers (basement on the first attack, from the air on the second attack)
3. Both attacks resulted in an immediate deployment to Iraq shortly after (Desert Storm, War in Iraq)
4. Both attacks resulted in the goal of removing Saddam Hussein from power (second one deemed successful)
5. Both attacks implicated Iraqis in the scandal (Saudi's attacked TT, not Iraqis)
6. Both ended up in senseless wars where thousands of innocent soldiers died

The end is near for the Bush regime, thanks to 5 states now signing onto the Articles of Impeachment to get this dropout out of office. Now if we cou

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jwt/ This should be added to the main article

Oh, for the not so indention crippled version (catch up to the times Slashdot!): Whatever view you have of Hilary Rosen, don't comfortably hold your opinion, as it is possible that much of her blog post was poorly composed by the top dominating member of her life, the Reality Acquisition Device, and quite possibly tells her what to think!

"But it was the Reality Acquisition Device that really got my attention. As Gates describes it, we'll hold a portable device much like our Blackberries, Treos and the new Motorola Q that Gates was holding, and place it in front of us as we move through life. Our surroundings will be illuminated by more information - more reality. Have we been here before? where did we go? are there buildings or businesses that our social network of friends have told us about? what are the local issues related to those we have already expressed concerned about that the device remembers? As he is talking I am thinking about what a magnificent political organizing tool this is connecting old fashioned grassroots organizing principles with tools for feedback and action. Then he says something about how it will tell us about the restaurants in the area based on the food it knows we like to eat."

Catch that? Gates? This blood hungry capitalist uses Windows to watch lesbian porn, and must pay loads, happily, due to DRM from the Windows codec! Every lesbian (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hilary-rosen/from-d -reality-in-the_b_21919.html)has a craving for it. Since she's too upperclass and civil to download from a peer to peer network, she is easily a proponent of DRM. These clues, which I have cleverly rendered together myself using higher end logic most Slashdot moderators would never dare to see at the end of the judgement tunnel, unconditionally proves it. She clearly has the testosterone to cold-heartedly have this view *and* whore herself to to the Huffington Post! Really, anyone who responds in opposition is a fascist. :-)

Really?

and your rights will disappear.

Call 1-800-ALQAEDA
and demand the arrest, trial, conviction, and sentencing of the world's most dangerous leader.

Cheers,
Kilgore Trout, Patriot

Call 1-800-ALQAEDA and demand the arrest, trial, conviction, and
sentencing of this freedom figher (a person who fights AGAINST freedom).

Thanks.

Sincerely,
K. Trout

Al-Qaeda Operations, how may I direct your
trial, conviction, sentencing, of call.

Thank for your donations.

Kilgore Trout, M.D.

1-800-ALQAEDA and demand the arrest, trial, conviction, and sentencing of as Kim Jong iL stated, the world's most dangerous "leader".

Patriotically from Alabamistan,
Kilgore Trout, Colonel

Al-Qaeda Operations, how may I direct your call?

P.S. Can you say Iran-Contra Part 2 ?

Patriotically from an undisclosed, secure bunker-bomb resistant bunker,
Kilgore Trout, M.D.

Oh, no you don't. Conservatives backed Bush through years of outrageous behaviour and are only now trying to sever him from their movement like a gangrenous limb to save their own hides.

If it's only now "becoming increasingly obvious" to you, then you've had your conservative head jammed up your conservative ass for years. Bush was your boy through defecits, environmental destruction, 9/11, the bullshit invasion of Iraq, torture, "extraordinary rendition", corruption and this wiretap scandal. Just because he's dropped below 30% popular support doesn't mean you can claim you never supported him.

This was beautifully expressed here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rick-perlstein/i-did nt-like-nixon-_b_11735.html

how may I direct your call?

Patriotically as always,
Kilgore Trout, C.E.O.

Don't believe the crap that the N.S.A. just collected phone numbers. Phone numbers are meaningless.
They were intercepting the CONTENT.

The content of the Bush-Cheney phone calls to Pakistan and Aghanistan will be very entertaining.

Call your senator and demand the arrest; trial, conviction: and sentencing of Al-Qaeda.

Thank you for your patriotism,
Kilgore Trout, M.D.

He Decided that gas saving hybrids were a threat to oil industry profits and so he eliminated the Clinton era hybrid project.

and

He Decided to keep Microsoft intact and eliminate any efforts to bring operating system competition back to the market.

He is "The Decider". He says so himself( http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/04/18.html#a795 8
  and a more comical/musical link http://decider.cf.huffingtonpost.com/ )

Brilliant or Idiot? History will play this one out while the Republican party tries to rewrite this history for decades to come.

LoB

Go f$ck yourself and your military-industrial complex cabal.

Call your bribe-slimed senator now and demand the
arrest, trial, conviction, and sentencing of Al-Qaeda.

Have a Bush_Cheney_Rice_Rumsfeld_Hayden_free-day,
Kilgore Trout, C.E.O.

Raw Story is in danger. Your right to read news stories and writing that disrupt the government/Big Media symbiosis is under attack. And you probably don't even know it.

There has been so much going on lately, what with plans to nuke Iran and the rolling mutiny among the top brass that you may well have missed another growing menace to all that we have built here.

The Internet phenomenon - the dizzying evolution from Netscape to Yahoo to Google to the new world of blogs and wikis - is the result of an essential structural attribute of the medium: the content-neutrality of the pipes we use to connect to it. It is the natural tendency of the powerful to silence and hinder anything that threatens their dominance, but the phone companies could not stop AOL, AOL could not stop Yahoo, and Yahoo could not stop Google, because the folks who owned the pipes used to carry all those ones and zeroes to and from your computer were not permitted to discriminate against bits they didn't like. (The concept of the "common carrier" dates back at least to the earliest regulation of railroads more than a hundred years ago.) That level field has also resulted in the current flowering of our participatory democracy. But that flower is about to pruned or even torn out by the roots.

The Orwellian "Communications Opportunity, Promotion, and Enhancement Act of 2006," sponsored by Congressman Joe Barton (R, Texas), will, if it becomes law, allow your Internet provider to charge you extra to read this column. It will allow your provider to block this column entirely. Congressman Ed Markey (D, Mass), who sponsored a defeated amendment that would have explicitly preserved neutrality, explains:

The Joe Barton (R-TX) sponsored telecommunications bill that is moving through the Energy & Commerce Committee in the House would fundamentally change the way the Internet works. ... In short, the Barton bill opens the door for the Bells and other ISPs to throw out a key principle of net neutrality and enact a new era of telecom taxes and tolls, roadblocks that would shut down the avenues of innovation that have allowed the Internet to become what it is today.

That bill took a big step toward being enacted into law last week.

A House subcommittee handed phone companies a victory Wednesday by voting 27-4 to advance a bill that would make it easier for them to deliver television service over the Internet and clearing the way for all Internet carriers to charge more for speedier delivery. ...

Earlier in the day, the subcommittee voted 23-8 to reject an amendment by Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., that would have inserted specific language designed to enforce network neutrality and prevent the feared creation of fast and slow lanes on the Internet.

"Members from both sides of the aisle endorsed a plan which will permit cable and phone companies to construct 'pay as you surf, pay as you post' toll booths for the Internet" said Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy in Washington.

But Sonia Arrison, director of technology studies for the Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco, dismissed concerns that the proposed bill would lead to a two-tiered Internet.

"There's plenty of competition," Arrison said. "The market will

Call your senator and demand the arrest, trial, conviction, and
sentencing of the world's most dangerous "leader".

Have a Bush_Cheney_Rice_Rumsfeld_free week,
Kilgore Trout, C.E.O.

P.S.: Defend America: Deport The White House

Call your senator and demand the arrest, trial, conviction, and
sentencing of Al-Qaeda.

Thank you for support.

Have a war_free day,
Kilgore Trout, M.D.

It's a shame about Rumsfeld screwing up in Iraq. That's been really hurting the President. Still, you don't always have the luxury of going to war with the Secretary of Defense that you want, sometimes you have to go to war with the Secretary of Defense that you have.

Bush -'The Decider' (Koo-koo-ka-choo)

The North Vietnamese would have done the U.S. a favor had
they shipped McCain to the Soviet Gulag.

John McCain: BushCo Walking-Talking Doll.

Sincerely,
K. Trout, C.P.A.

Economically, mentally, and physically, the worst drug IS TV.

So much for all the bogus NIH money spent on the impact of drugs on society.

The challenge is to find a drug that does more damage to society than TV. Go ahead social science researchers,
make my day.

Sincerely,
Kilgore Trout, M.D.

Call your senator and demand the arrest of
Al-Qaeda.

Will be televised.

Call Al-Qaeda Headquarters now and demand the arrest of the world's
most dangerous "leader".

Thanks and have a war_free weekend,
Kilgore Trout, C.E.O.

Call your senator and demand the arrest of
Al-Qaeda.

Patriotically,
Kilgore Trout, M.D.

Budget item for your federal tax dollars for war.

Call your senator and demand the use of federal tax dollars
for U.S. infrastructure and health care instead of the military-industrial complex.

.

If Al-Qaeda calls you, we'd like to know why.

I bet.

Sincerely,
Kilgore Trout, C.E.O.

Sounds good to me. I'll pass this info to my MInister of Propaganda.

Don't call us. We'll call you.

Have a peace_free weekend,

George W. Bush

The revolution is televised.

Defend America: Call your senator and demand the indictment of Al-Qaeda.

Patriotically,
Kilgore Trout, C.E.O.

The revolution is televised.

Defend America: Call your senator and demand the arrest ofAl-Qaeda.

Patriotically,
Kilgore Trout, C.E.O.

Maybe the conclusion of :

Al-Qaeda Operations, how may I direct your call?, may have
been more appropriate for the white collar criminals.

Have a nice day.

Patriotically,
KIlgore Trout

Al-Qaeda Operations, how may I direct your
call orders these.

Patriotically,
Kilgore Trout, C.E.O.

Al-Qaeda Operations, how may I direct your
call?

Sincerely,
Kilgore Trout, C.E.O.

1-800-ALQ-AEDA Operations, how may I direct your
call?

Patriotically,
KIlgore Trout, Activist

Instead of slobbering in history, why don't you post some news about
how Al-Qaeda is intercepting your communications?

Cheers.

Al-Qaeda Operations, how may I direct your call?

Cheers,
Kilgore Trout, C.E.O.

Will it encrypt your calls to Al-Qaeda?

George W. Bush wants to know (particularly if you are critical of him).

Sincerely,
Kilgore Trout, C.E.O.

is from Al-Qaeda Operations,

How may I direct your call?

Defend America: Deport The White House

Sincerely,
Kilgore Trout, C.E. O.

Yes, especially when they join forces and become what is called Al-Qaeda Operations, how may I direct your call?

Cheers,
K. Trout

Operations, how may I direct your call?

Cheers,
Kilgore Trout, C.E.O.

P.S.: B$ck Fush !

; How may I direct your call.?

  Spreading democracy and freedumb to Iraq. My ass.

Cheers,
Kilgore Trout, C.E.O.

In the United Gulags Of America.

Enjoy !!!

Sediitously,
Kilgore Trout, C.E.O.

Call 1-800-ALQ-AEDA and ask to speak to

President-VICE Richard B. Cheney.

Cheers,
Kilgore Trout, C.E.O.

Note: Open Source SimFaux OpenLaszlo Code Now Available via Subversion, so you can add your own characters and content!

SimFaux is an Interactive Faux News Simulation Game, a parody of Fox News, now online and FauxCasting from the Huffington Post Contagious Festival!

SimFaux is like a cross between The Sims and Mystery Science Theater, that lets you sit back and channel surf, or take control and create your own Faux News TV programs! It's pronounced "Sim Foe", of course!

Free live interactive SimFaux Simualtion Game (requires Flash, preferably version 8): http://simfaux.cf.huffingtonpost.com/

Screencast and demo video: http://www.simfaux.com/

I just posted the latest version of SimFaux, which currently has:

8 Simulated Characters with graphics and sound bites:
1) Arianna Huffington
2) Dick Cheney
3) George W Bush
4) Frank Zappa
5) Ann Coulter
6) Al Franken
7) Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
8) Bill O'Reilly

Channel Surfing (8 different channels with many different programs)

Create your own TV program:
Select any character, video feed to other information to display in each frame.
Invite any character onto your show.
Tell characters to talk, shut up, go away.

WebCam Support:
Put yourself on-screen and interview and argue with the characters!

Streaming Video Clips with keyword triggers.

Video backgrounds and overlays.

Keyword driven AI simulation:
All content is tagged and triggered with keywords, used by simulation to decide which video clips and sound bites to play.

Keyword display:
See active keywords, hide and focus on keywords to drive simulation

Meaningless graphs and chart-junk.

Interactive surveys with loaded questions and ballot box stuffing.

Teleprompter talking points with reference links so you can really decide for yourself.

Faux Chat simulated Internet chat room:
All character sound bites go into chat.
Amusing chat logs with keyword triggers that effect simulation.
Type text and keywords into chat to reply to characters and effect simulation.

SimFaux is written in OpenLaszlo, which is an Open Source XML/JavaScript based programming language for rich zero-install AJAX web applications:

http://www.openlaszlo.org/

SimFaux is a constantly evolving open-ended simulation game, which makes it easy to drop in new content (movies, characters, sound bites, text talking points, chat transcripts) all tagged up with keywords, so they play off of each other!

I want to enable other people to start FauxCasting their own stuff! So I will soon publish the source code for SimFaux as Open Source, to serve as an OpenLaszlo programming example, and so other people can modify it an add their own content, videos, characters, sound bites, games, etc! Please check the site http://www.simfaux.com/ for more information.

I am continuously adding more late breaking content and up-to-the-minute news, so please check back again later, and tell your friends about SimFaux!

-Don Hopkins (dhopkins@DonHopkins.com)

From Stanislaw Lem's "Non-Serviam" (1971):

(Personetics): A "world" for personoid "inhabitants" can be prepared in a couple of hours... A specific personoid activity serves as a triggering mechanism, setting in motion a production process that will gradually augment and define itself; in other words, the world surrounding these beings takes on an unequivocalness only in accordance with their own behavior... From four to seven personoids are optimal, at least for the development of speech and typical exploratory activity, and also for 'culturization'... It is possible to 'accommodate' up to one thousand personoids... Many different philosophies (ontologies and epistemologies) have arisen among them... I can enlarge their world or reduce it, speed up its time or slow it down, alter the mode and means of their perception; I can liquidate them, divide them, multiply them, transform the very ontological foundation of their existence...

On the lighter side of personetics... I'm developing an open source "Personetics" system called "SimFaux", which I've applied to parody Fox News, so it currently includes simulations of George W Bush, Dick Cheney, Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter, Frank Zappa, Arianna Huffington, Al Franken and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.

I've published the SimFaux source code and content as Free Open Source, so you can make your own characters, experiment with the existing ones, transform the very ontological foundation of their existence, see how the keyword based simulation works, extend it with your own rules and content, learn how to build interactive interfaces and simulations with streaming video in OpenLaszlo, etc.

-Don

"SimFaux is an interactive Faux News TV simulation, which I just published on the Huffingtonpost Contagious Festival. It's written entirely in OpenLaszlo, and features simulated characters (Dick Cheney, George W Bush, Arianna Huffington, Bill O'Reilly, and more to come), streaming video, sound bites, talking points, slanted surveys, meaningless graphs, dynamic keywords, pie menus, and several channels with different split screen layouts. All the content is tagged with keywords, which it uses to decide what to play next. There's an "About" channel that explains more.

Technically, it's an open-ended data-driven AJAXian web application written in OpenLaszlo (JavaScript + XML that runs in Flash), so it's easy to add more content and plug in new behaviors. (I plan to add some mini-games like Tick-Tack-Faux and Hangman!) I'm regularly adding more characters, video, talking points, sound bites, surveys, etc. So please check back again later for the latest breaking news and propoganda!

-Don

"SimFaux is an interactive Faux News TV simulation, which I just published on the Huffingtonpost Contagious Festival. It's written entirely in OpenLaszlo, and features simulated characters (Dick Cheney, George W Bush, Arianna Huffington, Bill O'Reilly, and more to come), streaming video, sound bites, talking points, slanted surveys, meaningless graphs, dynamic keywords, pie menus, and several channels with different split screen layouts. All the content is tagged with keywords, which it uses to decide what to play next. There's an "About" channel that explains more.

Technically, it's an open-ended data-driven AJAXian web application written in OpenLaszlo (JavaScript + XML that runs in Flash), so it's easy to add more content and plug in new behaviors. (I plan to add some mini-games like Tick-Tack-Faux and Hangman!) I'm regularly adding more characters, video, talking points, sound bites, surveys, etc. So please check back again later for the latest breaking news and propoganda!

-Don

Is this a surprise? The Bush admin is waging a war on porn and this is a logical step.