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the challenge (used to be $10,000., now at $100,000.): http://www.konformist.com/2002/herer-challenge.htm the initiative: http://www.jackherer.com/initiative.html bring your own hempen bag (canvas = cannabis). when will you ppl get smart? ;)

neither, thank you. i carry my own hempen (canvas) bag. why/by whom, rather. FOR whom, do youse think hemp was banned? answer: Dupont/nylon/petroleum. meanwhile ppl (we) die. the challenge: http://www.konformist.com/2002/herer-challenge.htm the initiative: http://www.jackherer.com/initiative.html

http://www.konformist.com/2001/hicks.htm

Fundamentalist Christianity - fascinating. These people actually believe that the the world is 12,000 years old. Swear to God. Based on what? I asked them.

"Well we looked at all the people in the Bible and we added 'em up all the way back to Adam and Eve, their ages: 12,000 years."

Well how fucking scientific, okay. I didn't know that you'd gone to so much trouble. That's good. You believe the world's 12,000 years old?

"That's right."

Okay, I got one word to ask you, a one word question, ready?

"Uh-huh."

Dinosaurs.

You know the world is 12,000 years old and dinosaurs existed, they existed in that time, you'd think it would have been mentioned in the fucking Bible at some point.

"And lo Jesus and the disciples walked to Nazareth. But the trail was blocked by a giant brontosaurus... with a splinter in his paw. And O the disciples did run a shriekin': 'What a big fucking lizard, Lord!' But Jesus was unafraid and he took the splinter from the brontosaurus's paw and the big lizard became his friend.

"And Jesus sent him to Scotland where he lived in a loch for O so many years inviting thousands of American tourists to bring their fat fucking families and their fat dollar bills.

"And oh Scotland did praise the Lord. Thank you Lord, thank you Lord. Thank you Lord."

I've seen photos of her dressed similar to Shirley Temple, dressed as a Vegas showgirl, dressed as a school girl, a Nashville country queen, but I haven't found the "cheap whore" photos of her. Sure, the Mom dolled up her daughter, but why the intense animosity? Playing dressup with your daughter doesn't lead to the conclusion that parents were involved in child sex abuse, which is a leap that many made.

In America, if you go on television and make jokes that offend Christian advertisers, you will be censored

you may be unaware where increased govt surveillance and control over the people leads.

Perhaps. And certainly it is grounds for debate. But it is the government threatening force to enact its will, and so your analogy was a poor one.

Oh, and with regards to the current regime: "It Would Be Easier If I Was Dictator" (G.W. Bush). http://www.konformist.com/2000/bush-dictator.htm [konformist.com]

When the Left isolates itself from reality, in favor of conspiracy theories, it just makes it easier for the Right to gain and hold power.

Dan tdaxp

you may be unaware where increased govt surveillance and control over the people leads.

Oh, and with regards to the current regime: "It Would Be Easier If I Was Dictator" (G.W. Bush).
http://www.konformist.com/2000/bush-dictator.htm

no this particular person warned the police about the portenital shooting... link: http://www.konformist.com/1999/colorado/report/rep ort.htm fta: "If you look up Brooks Brown on google, you'll learn a lot about me."

And where are you that you think you have more freedom of speech than the US?

How about *any* country that has allowed the late, great Bill Hicks to appear on network TV?

The last guy to talk shit like that got an all-expense paid stay at club fed and that was before the Bushinazis staged their coup!

Try searching google, using the source of the text. Works wonders.

There are a bunch of posts farther down that nobody is going to see about this, so I'll go ahead and post here anyway.

The Manhattan Institute (hereafter the MI) made a name for itself with some books in the late 80's which changed the face of political debate on welfare reform and community policing. They used this fame to continue to get a lot of publishing attention -- endorsing law and order (and police violence) in their City Journal rag; skewing the meaning of statistics on race and intelligence in the infamous Bell Curve; pandering to naive religious simpletons by stating that the counterculture caused all our problems (in Myron Magnet's The Dream and the Nightmare).

But their problems start from the very beginning. The MI has always pushed the neoconservative agenda, and their entire agenda has tried to make room for negative stereotypes of people in poverty, plus loads of police profiling, violence, and brutality. A quick googling will show various allegations of connections to the CIA, from conspiracy theories to proven facts. Some of this you'd better believe, given that a Boston Globe article mirrored on their own website mentions how their founder went on to be Reagan's chief CIA spook (warning: this article crashes my mozilla for some reason; use lynx). I don't want to invoke godwin's law here, but with eerie similarities like these it's hard not to. And apart from the article linked from this /. story there's enough fearmongering there to make ready.gov look honest and tame.

Incidentally, our favorite simpleton George "Dubya" Bush is a big fan of their work (notice how "faith-based initiatives" are prominent on their front page) since he swallowed up Magnet's pandering, but that's another story. Remember, when economic conservatism is around, social intolerance is never far away.

The US can be a really neat place. There's lots of pretty girls and guys, sexual freedom (ignore the Sunday morning pundits; nobody actually cares, not even George Bush Jr.) And there's every kind of food, and all (most) of it cheap. Cost of living is comparable to other highly rated countries (Canada, Japan, etc.), although part of that comes from having lots of land to play with (and assoc. taxes). It can also be really horrible when it comes to certain things. That is: getting certain electronics from japan (you know which ones), and being able to speak your mind and having someone listen to you even though you're not on MTV.

Of course, if you're really smart, you'll invent a new popular medium like the Internet which will solve both those problems (like eBay and Slashdot respectively)

Until then it's buying an island. When will Sealand start selling real estate? :)