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Bark Beetles Hate Rush Limbaugh and Heavy Metal
Aryabhata writes "According to scientists, climate change and human activity have allowed bark beetle populations to soar. They decided to fight the beetles by using the 'nastiest, most offensive sounds' that they could think of. These sounds included recordings of Guns & Roses, Queen, Rush Limbaugh and manipulated versions of the insects' own sounds. The research project titled 'Beetle Mania' has concluded that acoustic stress can disrupt their feeding and even cause the beetles to kill each other."
Pretty sure the likes of Pelosi and Boxer would do much better at driving the beetles crazy.
They tried playing tapes of Pelosi and Boxer, but that just made the beetles have more kids and apply for welfare.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
I wonder if this article would have made it to the front page of ./ if it hadn't provided an opportunity for certain folks to get a political jab in again at the "evil republicans".
I wonder if many Republicans feel as butt-hurt and paranoid as you do?
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
to blow his cigar smoke into the beetle's bore holes?
tobacco basically invented nicotine to kill insects, so rush, with his volumes of hot air, seems like a perfect delivery vehicle
as a bonus, we hasten limbaugh's death via lung cancer
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
If I had to listen to Rush forcibly all day - I'd probably want to off myself - who knows - maybe it works with insects too?
I'll take that troll mod as a definitive 'Yes, we're all that paranoid and butt-hurt.'
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Hah. You win the award for the indiscriminate offending of people on both sides of the aisle in one slashdot story -- one post modded troll for making fun of Democrats, one post modded troll for making fun of Republicans.
Care to go for the trifecta and offend independents?
Wat's the point? Independents are too dumb to understand that they are being offended.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
This is great, a politically trolling article...but if you dare say something about democrats YOU are the troll?
Looks like it's liberal fag mod-point thursday.
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Too bad. They all worked really hard in a meat packing plant, but got infections under their fingernails from the poor working conditions. After they couldn't continue working, they were jailed for being anti-social by the factory political minder. They went to a hospital for treatment, and walked out a month later with tuberculosis. This destroyed their ability to work further, so they were unable to get a decent apartment assigned by the local Party housing authority. After struggling for years for the collective, the beetles wondered... if I speak out will I be sent to Siberia or run over by a tank?
Or was it better to follow the advice of a narrow-minded, bigoted, meritless, and anti-human demagogue simply because he was a fellow Socialist? They realized that he was right all along. Societal progress can only be accomplished by performing some menial task for the collective good. Everything else is just a waste of time.
Hey fuckstick! In Capitalism, man exploits man. In Communism, it's the exact opposite. The difference is liberty. And I choose liberty. You want to be taken care of by your benevolent dictator? You and Noam wouldn't be missed.
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The difference is liberty. And I choose liberty.
Yeah. Last I heard, this is America! If you lived in Communist China, you wouldn't have the freedom to criticize like you're doing now! If it wasn't for our troops fighting for the freedoms you cherish, you'd be speaking German right now!
(Yep -- I can spout vacuous jingoistic aphorisms as well!)
Or was it better to follow the advice of a narrow-minded, bigoted, meritless, and anti-human demagogue simply because he was a fellow Socialist?
Let me guess: he's also not being non-partisan enough. ;)
Kneel Before Christ!
Dude, his voice is so annoying his own ears couldn't take it anymore and shut down.
I'm kidding, of course. His hearing loss was actually the result of him being an unapologetic oxycontin addict.
Hey, stop that. It's not nice to make fun of the mentally disabled. It is NOT his fault that he's a greasy pig-eyed ogre who flunked out of college, and I don't appreciate the implications of your post. And bringing up that he hypocritically abused dangerous amounts of prescription pain killers acquired from an underground drug ring after routinely making fun of drug addicts on his show? That's just low.
Leave him alone.
Kneel Before Christ!
Go for the gusto. Play Obama's latest SOTU speech. It's nasty, offensive, AND completely untruthful for a 3-in-1.
Besides, if you really want them to fight each other, you have to give them something to fight about. Right now they're arguing over whether GnR is better than Queen, just imagine if we can get the beetles to go to war over their political differences!
Mods are FUCKING STUPID as well as IGNORANT OF POP CULTURE.
THAT IS ALL.
Someone re-moderate BobNET's comment to it's proper place.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Obstructionists sounds like a compliment, anything to stop Congress from doing anything is good in my book (couldn't care less which party has the majority either). Like these massive snowfalls, nothing has made me happier.
Reviewing just the first hour of video games.
The powerful people conspiring to take away the rights of Republicans?
* Labor Unions
* Special interest groups who want funding by the federal government, such as ACORN, the group that helps pimps get houses and import underage prostitutes as well as falsify voter registration forms and violate other election laws.
* Movie stars
* Famous Rappers
* Famous Musicians
* Most of Hollywood for that matter. You know, people who lead the trends and most of the American idiot class around by the nose. Of course, those people have feet of clay. After all, how many said they would leave the country if Bush won election and re-election?
You also seem to forget that:
* Illegal aliens don't belong in the country and have no say in the government. People like you use the terms "illegal immigrant" or "undocumented immigrant" so you can say about people against illegal aliens "They are against immigration" thus muddying the waters and painting them with false colors.
* Homosexuals are on average, much more successful and richer than heterosexuals
* There are atheist Republicans
* There are black Republicans ("African American" is a term that should only apply to immigrants and their children.)
* There are homosexual Republicans
* College professors get to preach their doctrine to a captive audience and have been known to punish students who do not slavishly follow the professors' political agenda. I have seen it happen and have read about it in the newspaper and on news sites.
How about if I paint Democrats as crime-loving, drug-abusing apologist for brain-washers, drug-dealers, child-molesters, corrupt unions, organized crime, and illegal aliens who drive down the wages of working Americans by taking jobs under the table that pay less than minimum wage?
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
I don't like politicians who lie to me, and the number of distortions and lies in the speech were phenomenal.
As for the Republicans, when in the minority they are SUPPOSED to be obstructionist. The system is supposed to have checks and balances. Obama with Democrat control of the House and Senate means there's no checks and balances.
There's a reason George Washington warned us against forming political parties. A shame we didn't listen.
Congratulations -- you're officially part of the far right.
Congratulations, you're officially part of the Uninformed, Uneducated Bloc.
But then who will you use as an enemy image to propagandize against?
Well, it would still be you guys. Just at a comfortable distance for all involved.
The problem with putting all the socialists in one country is they don't have enough to share...they eventually run out of other people's money. So you guys like to spread out...so you can help the rest of us "redistribute" based on "fairness".
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Rei, your delusional if you think America wants to move further to the Left. I sware, you guys crack me up!
Life is not for the lazy.