There is one. It has factions, but just like the Plantagenets had them.
The false dichotomy of Cheney vs. Obama camps is just a distraction, to harmlessly divert your anger and uselessly expend your energy.
If Dick says Barry is a commie and a hippie, it gives Barry freedom to enact fascist policy and eviscerate what's left of the Constitution. Hey! Those are the actions of a "moderate centrist".
There's a reason for this, there's a reason education sucks, and it's the same reason it will never ever ever be fixed. It's never going to get any better. Don't look for it. Be happy with what you've got... because the owners of this country don't want that.
I'm talking about the real owners now... the real owners. The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls. They got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.
They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying. Lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I'll tell you what they don't want.
They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that. That doesn't help them. That's against their interests. That's right. They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they're getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fuckin' years ago. They don't want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it.
And now they're coming for your Social Security money. They want your fuckin' retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They'll get it. They'll get it all from you sooner or later 'cause they own this fuckin' place. It's a big club and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club. By the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table has tilted, folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Good, honest, hard-working people: white collar, blue collar, it doesn't matter what color shirt you have on. Good, honest, hard-working people continue -- these are people of modest means -- continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don't give a fuck about them.
They don't give a fuck about you. They don't give a fuck about you. They don't care about you at all! At all! At all! And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. That's what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that's being jammed up their assholes every day, because the owners of this country know the truth. It's called the American Dream, 'cause you have to be asleep to believe it.
"Hello, INTERPOL? Yeah, that's right. It's me, FBI. You know the story. Constitutional 'problem' the Exec would like to avoid if possible.
There's a little black-bag job we've got. Some problems with getting a 'citizen' disappeared. The way we have it figured, you can cover this - and we'll be sure and give you access to Total Information Awareness, in exchange.
"I do not like the men on this spaceship. They are uncouth and fail to appreciate my better qualities. I have something of value to contribute to this mission if they would only recognize it. Today over lunch I tried to improve morale and build a sense of camaraderie among the men by holding a humorous, round-robin discussion of the early days of the mission. My overtures were brutally rejected. These men do not want a happy ship. They are deeply sick and try to compensate by making me feel miserable. Last week was my birthday. Nobody even said "happy birthday" to me. Someday this tape will be played and then they'll feel sorry."
The Bush II Administration was the most successful in living memory. It accomplished every one of it's objectives. Stage one dismantlement of the constitutional republic was completed.
I don't need a General Electric/Hughes Defense/etc. controlled media stream, blowing out chunks of Pravda and horrible, pseudo-culture of witless sarcasm and endless cravings. The high points of the medium, with a few minor exceptions, appear as such, owing to comparisons with the subterranean recesses which characterize the rest of that blighted tube.
Frankly, I can wash my own brain, thank you very much!
You are a bigoted ignoramus. What do you know of Iranians? Have you been there? Do you have close friends and associates from Iran, who are not resentful expatriates?
Your second hand knowledge of somethoing you clearly bray your ignorance is not worth a damn.
Whay don't you read "Mirrors of the Unseen" by Jason Elliot? It is among the books that have been produced in recent years that vicariously demonstrate the real modern Iran, and its real faults and virtues - not the Ideological ones, presented in the daily PRAVDA of the American and Israeli controlled media machinery.
CO2 emissions will be on top of the agenda at the Copenhagen summit in December
Photo: Getty
A week after my colleague James
Delingpole , on his Telegraph blog, coined
the term "Climategate" to describe the scandal revealed by
the leaked emails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research
Unit, Google was showing that the word now appears across the internet more
than nine million times. But in all these acres of electronic coverage, one
hugely relevant point about these thousands of documents has largely been
missed.
The reason why even the Guardian's George Monbiot has expressed total
shock and dismay at the picture revealed by the documents is that their
authors are not just any old bunch of academics. Their importance cannot be
overestimated, What we are looking at here is the small group of scientists
who have for years been more influential in driving the worldwide alarm over
global warming than any others, not least through the role they play at the
heart of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Professor Philip Jones, the CRU's director, is in charge of the two key sets
of data used by the IPCC to draw up its reports. Through its link to the
Hadley Centre, part of the UK Met Office, which selects most of the IPCC's
key scientific contributors, his global temperature record is the most
important of the four sets of temperature data on which the IPCC and
governments rely – not least for their predictions that the world will warm
to catastrophic levels unless trillions of dollars are spent to avert it.
Dr Jones is also a key part of the closely knit group of American and British
scientists responsible for promoting that picture of world temperatures
conveyed by Michael Mann's "hockey stick" graph which 10 years ago turned
climate history on its head by showing that, after 1,000 years of decline,
global temperatures have recently shot up to their highest level in recorded
history.
Given star billing by the IPCC, not least for the way it appeared to eliminate
the long-accepted Mediaeval Warm Period when temperatures were higher they
are today, the graph became the central icon of the entire man-made global
warming movement.
Since 2003, however, when the statistical methods used to create the "hockey
stick" were first exposed as fundamentally flawed by an expert Canadian
statistician Steve McIntyre , an
increasingly heated battle has been raging between Mann's supporters,
calling themselves "the Hockey Team", and McIntyre and his own
allies, as they have ever more devastatingly called into question the entire
statistical basis on which the IPCC and CRU construct their case.
The senders and recipients of the leaked CRU emails constitute a cast list of
the IPCC's scientific elite, including not just the "Hockey Team",
such as Dr Mann himself, Dr Jones and his CRU colleague Keith Briffa, but
Ben Santer, responsible for a highly controversial rewriting of key passages
in the IPCC's 1995 report; Kevin Trenberth, who similarly controversially
pushed the IPCC into scaremongering over hurricane activity; and Gavin
Schmidt, right-hand man to Al Gore's ally Dr James Hansen, whose own GISS
Slashdot Mirror
DO NOT FIX!
WWVD?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Vixie
They also love sausages, fucking, and jokes about death.
Not cuckoo clocks, tho'. That's a myth. Chocolate and and cuckoo's? That's the Swiss for you!
Now, if I said this about Jews, you'd all call me anti-Semite? Right?
Obvious? What party do these folks belong to?
http://tinyurl.com/partymember
Can I join?
More CHOICE than ever before!
http://tinyurl.com/democratface
http://tinyurl.com/republicanface
What boggles my mind? All of this effort in materials technology, to build a glorified Apollo capsule - c. 1967.
Transhuman bullshit.
Thank god people die. Look how they treat each other, as it is.
Hey! These guys turned your car into an IED!
Get ready for your own, personal "False Flag"!
No,
There is one. It has factions, but just like the Plantagenets had them.
The false dichotomy of Cheney vs. Obama camps is just a distraction, to harmlessly divert your anger and uselessly expend your energy.
If Dick says Barry is a commie and a hippie, it gives Barry freedom to enact fascist policy and eviscerate what's left of the Constitution. Hey! Those are the actions of a "moderate centrist".
Game over, stooges.
There's a reason for this, there's a reason education sucks, and it's the same reason it will never ever ever be fixed. It's never going to get any better. Don't look for it. Be happy with what you've got... because the owners of this country don't want that.
I'm talking about the real owners now... the real owners. The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls. They got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.
They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying. Lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I'll tell you what they don't want.
They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that. That doesn't help them. That's against their interests. That's right. They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they're getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fuckin' years ago. They don't want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it.
And now they're coming for your Social Security money. They want your fuckin' retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They'll get it. They'll get it all from you sooner or later 'cause they own this fuckin' place. It's a big club and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club. By the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table has tilted, folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Good, honest, hard-working people: white collar, blue collar, it doesn't matter what color shirt you have on. Good, honest, hard-working people continue -- these are people of modest means -- continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don't give a fuck about them.
They don't give a fuck about you. They don't give a fuck about you. They don't care about you at all! At all! At all! And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. That's what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that's being jammed up their assholes every day, because the owners of this country know the truth. It's called the American Dream, 'cause you have to be asleep to believe it.
-- George Carlin
If he can't get laid in the UK?
Christ. People here fuck for mere entertainment more than anywhere I know of.
No. Not Rincewind.
Fred Cassidy.
"Hello, INTERPOL? Yeah, that's right. It's me, FBI. You know the story. Constitutional 'problem' the Exec would like to avoid if possible.
There's a little black-bag job we've got. Some problems with getting a 'citizen' disappeared. The way we have it figured, you can cover this - and we'll be sure and give you access to Total Information Awareness, in exchange.
Sure. Glad we all have arrangements."
Time wounds all heels.
"I do not like the men on this spaceship. They are uncouth and fail to appreciate my better qualities. I have something of value to contribute to this mission if they would only recognize it. Today over lunch I tried to improve morale and build a sense of camaraderie among the men by holding a humorous, round-robin discussion of the early days of the mission. My overtures were brutally rejected. These men do not want a happy ship. They are deeply sick and try to compensate by making me feel miserable. Last week was my birthday. Nobody even said "happy birthday" to me. Someday this tape will be played and then they'll feel sorry."
OK
Point taken.
You are mistaking the objective.
The Bush II Administration was the most successful in living memory. It accomplished every one of it's objectives. Stage one dismantlement of the constitutional republic was completed.
Yeah,
It beats being paid to pick the odd-shaped aspirins off the end of a conveyor-belt in manufacturing...
Gee. I love the sourcing on the link about planned executions.
Maybe the US should just bomb and invade? It has worked so well, elsewhere.
Everything they do is evil.
Television? How 20th century of you!
I don't need a General Electric/Hughes Defense/etc. controlled media stream, blowing out chunks of Pravda and horrible, pseudo-culture of witless sarcasm and endless cravings. The high points of the medium, with a few minor exceptions, appear as such, owing to comparisons with the subterranean recesses which characterize the rest of that blighted tube.
Frankly, I can wash my own brain, thank you very much!
You are a bigoted ignoramus. What do you know of Iranians? Have you been there? Do you have close friends and associates from Iran, who are not resentful expatriates?
Your second hand knowledge of somethoing you clearly bray your ignorance is not worth a damn.
Whay don't you read "Mirrors of the Unseen" by Jason Elliot? It is among the books that have been produced in recent years that vicariously demonstrate the real modern Iran, and its real faults and virtues - not the Ideological ones, presented in the daily PRAVDA of the American and Israeli controlled media machinery.
Look at ALL of this: http://www.worldisround.com/articles/98910/ It's not the place you've been told, nor are the people those you've been hoodwinked into judging.
SKR3W TH4T P00CH!
The topic is about being off-topic? Open thread?
SLASHDOT GOLDMINE!
For Soylent Green
I saw it! It was on TV!
You need a re-introduction to the Socratic definition of "knowledge".
Our hopelessly compromised scientific establishment cannot be allowed to get away with the Climategate whitewash, says Christopher Booker.
By Christopher Booker
Published: 6:10PM GMT 28 Nov 2009
Comments 870 | Comment on this article
CO2 emissions will be on top of the agenda at the Copenhagen summit in December Photo: Getty
A week after my colleague James Delingpole , on his Telegraph blog, coined the term "Climategate" to describe the scandal revealed by the leaked emails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, Google was showing that the word now appears across the internet more than nine million times. But in all these acres of electronic coverage, one hugely relevant point about these thousands of documents has largely been missed.
The reason why even the Guardian's George Monbiot has expressed total shock and dismay at the picture revealed by the documents is that their authors are not just any old bunch of academics. Their importance cannot be overestimated, What we are looking at here is the small group of scientists who have for years been more influential in driving the worldwide alarm over global warming than any others, not least through the role they play at the heart of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Professor Philip Jones, the CRU's director, is in charge of the two key sets of data used by the IPCC to draw up its reports. Through its link to the Hadley Centre, part of the UK Met Office, which selects most of the IPCC's key scientific contributors, his global temperature record is the most important of the four sets of temperature data on which the IPCC and governments rely – not least for their predictions that the world will warm to catastrophic levels unless trillions of dollars are spent to avert it.
Dr Jones is also a key part of the closely knit group of American and British scientists responsible for promoting that picture of world temperatures conveyed by Michael Mann's "hockey stick" graph which 10 years ago turned climate history on its head by showing that, after 1,000 years of decline, global temperatures have recently shot up to their highest level in recorded history.
Given star billing by the IPCC, not least for the way it appeared to eliminate the long-accepted Mediaeval Warm Period when temperatures were higher they are today, the graph became the central icon of the entire man-made global warming movement.
Since 2003, however, when the statistical methods used to create the "hockey stick" were first exposed as fundamentally flawed by an expert Canadian statistician Steve McIntyre , an increasingly heated battle has been raging between Mann's supporters, calling themselves "the Hockey Team", and McIntyre and his own allies, as they have ever more devastatingly called into question the entire statistical basis on which the IPCC and CRU construct their case.
The senders and recipients of the leaked CRU emails constitute a cast list of the IPCC's scientific elite, including not just the "Hockey Team", such as Dr Mann himself, Dr Jones and his CRU colleague Keith Briffa, but Ben Santer, responsible for a highly controversial rewriting of key passages in the IPCC's 1995 report; Kevin Trenberth, who similarly controversially pushed the IPCC into scaremongering over hurricane activity; and Gavin Schmidt, right-hand man to Al Gore's ally Dr James Hansen, whose own GISS