[click image].
I am definitely too old for this stuff.
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love, 99
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07 September 2010
i thought it was blogger's interface with the nsa acting up on me again
[click image].
But maybe it's CERN black holes. Whatever it is, there are times when a second post window opens up when I upload an image and I don't know what the heck could be up with that, but, depending on how many things I'm doing at once, sometimes the post that has the image link in it isn't the one that gets posted. So you click the image and just get the image instead of whatever it was I was trying to point out. I know a lot of you are reading these posts and not mentioning this little crucial glitch to me, and, well, it's hard enough being me, dammit!
If yer too shy to speak up in public, you could email me, ya know. Or. You could continue to believe I'm an even more vexing blogger than it already would seem without any of the cyber-anomalies that bear on this world.
I'm still blind because I can't put my contacts in while having to administer all this goo a bunch of times a day, and tomorrow I go to a genuine ophthalmologist to see if he can't tell me a little more about the ins and outs of this iritis gig. If he dilates my eyes again, it's gonna make me sick and really blind again for another couple days. This is preventing me going to see my Poppa and it could become mildly Shakespearean around here....
I'm going to ask him, if he wants to dilate my eyes, if there isn't any other way to accomplish his ends.
I don't know. Maybe they can tunnel in through your ears. It doesn't hurt to ask.
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love, 99
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or kick back with some zevon
[click image, via BB2, you need to login to listen].
Or take it all in and find yer balance anyway.
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love, 99
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zionist israeli neocon jewish, whatever you call it
[click image, video, two hours].
Dudes, this seems to be the Year of Israel Did It. Everywhere I turn, I'm finding more and more and more overtly-worded stuff that says Israel did 9/11. This video, Missing Links, wants to throw it all out and and just say Jews did 9/11.
You might have seen it last year, but it's being hyped again this year. I am having great difficulty getting all the way through it. I'm sure most or all of the facts presented are correct, but the way it's narrated and the tone and the cadence is DIFFICULT to bear. I remember snapping it off the first time I came across it, and am trying manfully to get all the way through it this time... since the fingers pointing at Israel have increased exponentially this year and the veracity of the pointers is beginning to elevate as well. I mean, it's not just anti-Semitic conspiracy nuts anymore.
This would seem to preach that we should not just automatically close our ears because we think they're racist lunatics. We should try to endure it to see what might be true... but... well... this is hard going. I'm reaching for the ibuprofen and I'm supposed to be a pro at this listening to maniacs thing.
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Ya know, the wording of the narration in this is SO ludicrous that I can't help suspecting it was some Zionist group putting it out to make themselves seem the victims of racism. It's THAT over the top. People are made to seem nefarious because they are related to a rabbi... or just for being Jewish at all. NO ONE is THIS ham handed but the Holocaust Industry, are they? I think it's a frickin' computer reading a script, typos and all.
So. That's my opinion of this not very helpfully-worded documentary. I mean, I'm only human, so there could have been some whoppers stuck in there that got past me while my synapses were glazing over, but at least I think it has the basic information correct. I've only met one otherwise lucid person who took this view, this view that all Jews are involved in this ugliness, by dint of being Jewish alone, and it's true I do not frequent White Supremacist or other radical racist sites, but I don't think even THEY could be this obnoxious, could they? I'm going with the Zionist-Conspiracy theory of the production of this video... because if it wasn't them, it might as well have been.
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love, 99
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battin' a thousand losers
[click image, today's Keiser Report, twenty-five minutes].
I immediately emailed Max [keiserreport@rttv.ru] to tell him my Peak America Moment is the JFK administration, hands down... which was why it was so short.
[The number of views on that video has stuck at 305 all day. You KNOW that's not true. WHAT is YouTube doing?}
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love, 99
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pathologically vain articulate sellout murderating putz
[click image].
Ignoring for the moment Scheer's Democratic-fascist-in-denial leanings, or vestigial illusions, however you want to think of them, his meaningless-but-dangerous allegiance to the worthless posturing of Feingold and Sanders, herein, he recaps a little historical reality that helps highlight the magnitude of the betrayal.
REALLY GOOD QUESTION....
REALLY GOOD POINT....
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love, 99
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if we must be so warlike, could we at least focus it on the real enemy?
[click image].
Indeed, good sir, there are very many, a big majority, of rational men who have no wish to attack Iran, but there are a few, a despicably powerful few, who can make it happen anyway.
There was a piece of total fabrication in the NYT yesterday that I didn't have the strength to bring up and debunk bit by bit, the real POINT being only that the NYT is doing precisely what it did with the run up to the Iraq invasion, only not using Judy Miller's byline this time. There's one visitor to this blog who thinks the whole bit with Iran is only saber rattling, and indeed I have had to take refuge in that thought quite a few times, but what it really is is our government and other servants of the controllers incessantly trying to create a casus belli that could turn the world population in favor of attacking Iran.
As I've said before, and was confirmed in the interview I linked yesterday, there is the small matter of the missing nuke that in a pinch may yet be made to serve, depending on the pressure to get this done. I saw yesterday, too, that there were about five bits of "news" aimed again specifically at dehumanizing Iranians, especially the Iranian regime, to the point where it might be okay with us to nuke them to save them from all that.
So today I find this Reuters piece and I'm simply leaving out all the paragraphs in it that were lies and convenient allusions to facts not in evidence, just sticking to their reportage on the Russian official's material. It's more informative and less dangerous this way.
Russian official: U.S. hindering resumption of talks with IranWe have PERFECTLY CLEARLY refused to accept every acceptance of our offers to Iran to settle this matter peacefully, and there's only ONE reason for that. The powers that be don't want the matter settled. They want to use it as an excuse to attack Iran, and they are not giving up mindfucking us, keeping the masses stupid enough so that a false flag will work like a charm.
The comments, made to a discussion group of Russia experts, appeared aimed at nudging Washington towards restarting stalled UN-backed talks to provide Iran with nuclear fuel for a Tehran research reactor.
By Reuters
A senior Russian government official said on Monday that the United States was hindering the resumption of talks with Iran on a fuel swap deal aimed at easing concern over the Islamic Republic's nuclear ambitions.
The comments, made to a discussion group of Russia experts, appeared aimed at nudging Washington towards restarting stalled UN-backed talks to provide Iran with nuclear fuel for a Tehran research reactor.
"I am concerned by the fact that the United States slowed down the process," the senior government official told the Valdai group of Russia experts when asked about the fuel deal.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
... the Russian official said Western demands that Iran give up making low enriched uranium were futile and that major powers should instead focus on preventing Tehran getting fuel that could be used for a nuclear bomb.
"It is not realistic that Iran will give up the enrichment up to four percent," the official said. "The international community should focus on preventing the further enrichment to 20 percent."
... Russia welcomed a statement last month by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who said work to make higher-grade uranium would stop if it got assurances on nuclear fuel supplies for the Tehran research reactor.
At that time, Russia also called for a meeting as soon as possible to discuss such supplies.
... The Russian official said Moscow did not want Tehran to have nuclear weapons but warned that rash decisions over Iran could lead to a tragedy for the Middle East.
...Russia voted for a UN Council sanctions resolution against Iran in June but Moscow has criticised tougher additional sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union.
The Russian official said the tougher unilateral sanctions imposed by Washington and Brussels were unacceptable.
"If we agreed on something we shall not allow any step to the left or right of the basic document," the official said.
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love, 99
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we have the power
[click image].
We need to use it. Just look at those squillions of people in a 100% peaceful demonstration. It ousted the corrupt leadership.
Strikes in France, London foreshadow more protestsIt's doable.
By ANGELA DOLAND, Associated Press Writer – 47 mins ago
PARIS – French strikers disrupted trains and planes, hospitals and mail delivery Tuesday amid massive street protests over plans to raise the retirement age. Across the English Channel, London subway workers unhappy with staff cuts walked off the job.
The protests look like the prelude to a season of strikes in Europe, from Spain to the Czech Republic, as heavily indebted governments cut costs and chip away at some cherished but costly benefits that underpin the European good life — a scaling-back process that has gained urgency with Greece's euro110 billion ($140 billion) bailout.
In France, where people poured into the streets in 220 cities, setting off flares and beating drums, a banner in the southern port city of Marseille called for Europe-wide solidarity: "Let's Refuse Austerity Plans!" The Interior Ministry said more than 1.1 million people demonstrated throughout France, while the CFDT union put the number at 2.5 million.
Some commuters were annoyed by the disruptions — even in strike-inured France.
"I'm just getting tired of this because this is not the first time," said Henda Fersi, a passenger at the Part-Dieu train station in Lyon in southeast France. "I understand the strikers' point of view but, still, they put us in a difficult situation and we're penalized."
French protesters are angry about the government's plan to do away with the near-sacred promise of retirement at 60, forcing people to work until 62 because they are living longer. The goal is to bring the money-draining pension system back into the black by 2018.
As debate on the subject opened in parliament, Labor Minister Eric Woerth said the plan was one "of courage and reason" and that it is the "duty of the state" to save the pension system. He later told TF1 television that the president would announce minor changes to the reform Wednesday, though its fundamentals would remain the same.
Prime Minister Francois Fillon reminded the French that it could be worse: In nearly all European countries, the current debate is over raising the retirement age to 67 or 68, he said. Germany has decided to bump the retirement age from 65 to 67, for example, and the U.S. Social Security system is gradually raising the retirement age to 67.
That sense of perspective was missing from many of the French protests, where some slogans bordered on the hysterical. One sign in Paris showed a raised middle finger with the message: "Greetings from people who will die on the job."
Amid the Paris mayhem, European Union finance ministers meeting in Brussels agreed to create new financial institutions in hopes of preventing a repeat of the government debt crisis that nearly left Greece bankrupt and brought the European banking system to its knees. Market jitters remain — though the most apocalyptic scenarios discussed a few months ago, such as the collapse of the euro currency, have been put on the back burner.
In London, Underground workers unhappy about job cuts closed much of the city's subway system — the first in a series of 24-hour strikes planned for the fall. The thousands of London maintenance workers, drivers and station staff who walked out say the cuts will hurt service and safety.
With the underground train service shut, buses had to take on extra loads, while vehicular traffic was heavy and city sidewalks were teeming with walkers and bikers.
"The bus system has been a mess today, but I got here," said Anita Prazmowska of South London.
In France, some post offices shut down, schools were hamstrung and public hospitals were hit with a nearly 18 percent staff cut for the day. The strike also blocked the Atlantic coast port at Saint-Nazaire, including vessels that feed into the nearby Total refinery.
Civil aviation authorities asked airlines to cancel a quarter of their flights at Paris' airports. Only two out of every five of France's famed high-speed trains operated during the strike, which ran Monday evening through Tuesday night.
Some Paris commuters had to resort to the city's rental bicycle system, Velib, and not all were happy about it. One commuter, Antonia Gilles, tried it for the first time: "It was a success but it was dangerous."
Similar protests are set for elsewhere in Europe in coming weeks.
A general strike was planned in Spain for Sept. 29 over labor market reforms, and in the Czech Republic, a massive protest against proposed austerity measures, including 10 percent salary cuts for state employees, was set for Sept. 21.
In Greece, all public transport workers in the Athens area are to stop work Wednesday for five hours to protest planned reforms to the indebted railway company. Rail and suburban rail workers are to repeat the work stoppage Thursday.
The French strikes come at a time when conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy's approval ratings hover in the mid-30 percent range.
On top of that, an unfolding tax and party financing scandal centered on the fortune of the L'Oreal cosmetics heiress has left many wondering if the government cares more about the interests of the rich and powerful than ordinary workers.
"If we need money ... we know where to find it," said Guy Gamet, a 55-year-old representative of the Workers Force union as he marched in Lyon, in the southeast. "When it was necessary to bail out the banks not so long ago, we knew where to find the money."
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love, 99
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revolutions in consciousness
[click image, playlist, think of this as real encouragement].
Our entire world is run by psychopaths.
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love, 99
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06 September 2010
journalism and blogger activism have no impact where it counts
[click image].
I began to make an effort to wade through the already aged House of Death case when I started this blog. I learned a lot the hard way, and what I learned did not suit the people, the "whistleblowers" trying to get it prosecuted. I learned that it wasn't mere interdepartmental—inter-duplicated-deparmental—squabbling and completely separate from their idiotic charges of "racism". I saw the corruption leading all the way up on both sides of the border. I learned that DHS has not only taken the Secret Service from Treasury, but duplicated almost every other Federal agency, putting every major function of the administration under one roof, even though all the other roofs are still supposedly activated. When you want to know what the controllers are doing, look into what DHS is doing. ICE is the cowboy arm of what used to come under the heading of Immigration and of the DEA, and they get away with murder. Literally.
I remind you again that this is FASCISM.
I remind you again that if you think your top flight investigative journalism will have enough impact to even slow these fuckers, you are down the rabbit hole, and you are WASTING everyone's time. I can see all of us not understanding this fully until sometime shortly after the second election stolen by team Dubya, but you're either too programmed to be of any use to the world or subintellectual if you are still entertaining notions of the effectiveness of truth on the tubes against the megalith state and its controllers. You have two options: rise up or wake up.
If you won't do the former, you should get about the latter, and stop putting up with the crap from people, EVEN people you love, that does nothing more than drag you back into the glue pit of polarization and fucking psychotically benighted excuses pulled out of the ocean of them used on you so long you don't even slow to consider their inanity.
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love, 99
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beyond the pale
[click image].
And Prince was allowed to just skip the country. Nothing to see here. Move along.
[If you have the capability of opening up their interactive tree, it's even more boggling. You click these little plus signs and more and more and more front companies come popping out of the woodwork.
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love, 99
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former bbc correspondent pins 9/11 on mossad
[click image].
Despite mention of Gordon Duff, who I feel is so avid to prove this thesis that he uses really iffy and frequently nonexistent sources, this is ten minutes extremely well spent. Expand the info box under the player at YouTube.
Entire interview mp3....
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love, 99
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is that my monitor or a hole in the ground?
[click image, if you want the status on wars and torture].
I took off both pairs of glasses so you could see the great improvement in my eye situation today. I had to keep them on to find the button to push to snap the shot, hold it right there and take off the glasses with my other hand.
I put on my farmin' and plantin' and drivin' Hispanic men into gales of unrequited lust groans... well and not just Hispanic men... overalls. For some reason my overalls—covered with tao symbols and peace symbols and any number of cool silk patches of things like eyes and flowers and stains and material worn to mush from decades of use—turn on yer basic generic male of the lascivious stripe; to wit: nearly all of them. It's goofy because I originally bought them for the precise reason that they would discourage lascivious thoughts in all comers. They were my uniform in Central America, being huge and loose and covered in the good kind of pockets for cash and passport, everything that needed to stay on my person at all times, and deflect attention from a lone woman traveler. They were a smashing success for practical purposes, but an abysmal failure in the deflecting attention department. I was wearing them while finally receiving the dispositive instruction in the TRUE amount of agua pura required to ward off heat stroke at Tikal from a group of German experts. All Germans abroad are experts in everything. When in doubt, FIND A GERMAN. Anyway, I'd been certain three gallons a day would be more than enough, but they illustrated vividly to me that I'd stop panting and puffing and reeling my way around the ruins if I'd simply drink two more gallons of water. A revelation. Who'd've thunk it.
I put my overalls on today so I can grope my way down the street in search of a sighted wealthy socialist gentleman to buy me a new pair of EYES.
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love, 99
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creation myth?
[click image, playlist].
Since I can't see, I'm just going to listen and not judge.
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love, 99
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05 September 2010
just to have something pretty at the top of my blog
[click image].
While I struggle to get my "eyesight" back, I don't want you to have to be greeted by that wreck directly below.
[I mean, of course, what PASSES for my eyesight....]
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Despite formal combat end, US joins Baghdad battle
...my nomination for headline of the year.... Whut? Now it's called "informal combat"?
Just shoot me.
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love, 99
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the camera in this puppy is most psychedelic at night
[click image, Kramer interview, player in the right sidebar, listen again please].
I watched the Matrix movies. Whoever it was recommending them for their Gnostic content was right to do so, but he might also have said Zen, or Sufi.... It was very obvious where it was stuck in and I was struck by how much these movies stole from so many others and how much of these were stolen for Avatar. And "Zion"? Do you suppose they did that to stroke the Israeli boosting thing? Naw, Zion refers to "the spiritual point from which reality emerges". Would that Zionists understood that correctly. I don't have to watch again. That's not out there. That's stuff I already know by heart, but it is waaaay cool they try to get it into the general public's consciousness.
Anyway, I'm going to the ER. This ALWAYS happens on weekends and holidays. You may have been able to tell earlier, but this psychedelic over-exposure here, makes it plainer still. Something is bad wrong with my eyes. They are infected and inflamed and it's getting worse. This keeps happening every few weeks and I hop myself up on ibuprofen and try to get the fuckers at the clinic to give me an appointment or a referral to an ophthalmologist and they're like a pile of boulders. I'm worried that it's something worse, or will be if I keep living through each episode. The photophobia is coming back, and that is NOT a good sign.
So. Right. I'm going to the hospital and I'm not leaving until they at least give me some antibiotic drops.
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Iritis? I have iritis. There was a doctor there who seemed actually to not be an impostor, and he put about a thousand different drops of things in my eyes. I've scratched the cornea on my left eye, too. I have a whole mound of drops and goo and ibuprofen and my eyes are so dilated from the stuff that keeps down the photophobia gig that I see about four times more poorly than the blind I already was.
I haven't slept in twenty-four hours. I think I'll just have myself a little nap now.
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love, 99
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04 September 2010
the dominant paradigm is killing me
[click image, playlist].
Today I received my Matrix Trilogy DVDs that I ordered online for less than it would cost me to rent them. It was while listening to a Neil Kramer interview that I became convinced I needed to watch the first one again, and see the second and third, because he asserts there's all kinds of Gnostic symbolism in them, Gnostic teachings. I reckon I can watch them for the entertainment and then watch again where I can drill in, maybe even take notes.
So I'm starting in on it tonight, but thought I'd leave you this bit about the HIGHLY advanced technology that HAS to have been employed at Giza, since it is one of the reasons I'm bothering to mine these movies for my doctoral degree.
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love, 99
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cenk uygur is doing a good job
[click image].
It's pronounced JENK YOOGER. I'm thinking at this moment that at least in this case it's a good thing the stars of groupthink are being promoted to tv, but it's only a temporary wind of positivity, I'm sure. He's still heavily biased toward the Democratic-Fascists, thinking that dissing them appropriately keeps him out of the fascist-in-denial camp. The man's so smart and energetic that I hope it doesn't end up defeating him in his spirit, that he can work himself so far into the truth zone he won't die a sellout. I extra want the best for him because he has the power to save people, living things.
It's a good sign that he's in for Ratigan, who's definitely not the sellout so many other liberal pundits have become. The trick is not to invest yourself so much in what you like coming out their mouths that you continually overlook the terrifying shit, better known as "spin", that also comes out their mouths.
The thing the fascists have on their side in this attempt to obliterate every social safety net is that many veterans who collect full disability also are filthy rich or collecting full paychecks... and both. The same is true for some people on Social Security and Medicare. This does not mean the government has any right to touch a penny of their righteously-earned benefits, or had a right to loot the trusts for any of them, but they can make it sound reasonable to people. For instance: John McCain collects a full disability benefit. There are lots of those.
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Oh, and did you note the senator not even bothering to sound contrite, pretty much saying fuck-you-deal-with-it-serf. The veil is coming off. They know you're not going to do anything about it, can't stop them because you won't, and they're not bothering to conceal the attitude anymore. This is a GOOD thing because it holds the promise of convincing deluded fuckers that we can't stop these guys with any amount of yelling and feuding and kamikaze attacks on IRS offices and nonprofit websites and petitions and votes... fucking voting... drives me up a wall! HOW many times do you have to watch that action failing utterly before you take the clue. The world is our teacher and we don't take the lessons. The only thing that stops them is STOPPING THEM... but that takes awake people with courage and love and solidarity, and we are breathtakingly short of those.
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love, 99
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03 September 2010
the lady who cuts my hair tries so hard to make me look normal
[click image].
She's so mellow about my mania for no two strands of hair the same length, no approximation of neatness or intensive study, the very frontier of vision from the I'm-not-going-to-use-a-sextant school of beauty. I always have to come home and make a hash of it. This is only a semi-hash because I've been too busy making more options for searching in my new toolbar and other tweaks to the service. Just, please, click on the little icons down there and see what happens.
I'm still leaning toward not liking it at all, but I don't hate it as much as I thought I would and it could be handy for people. I'll probably end up setting it to default to collapsed mode and you can just open it if you want then....
I posted the latest much-closer-to-actual unemployment stats near the top of my sidebar today. It looks just like last month's, only worse. All over the place I see fuckers yimmering the 9.6% meme today. WHO IN THE FUCK DO THEY THINK THEY'RE FOOLING? Acting as though the actual is not actuality ONLY leads to bad suffering, even when it makes a few people megabucks. Half the country's on food stamps. Worse psychedelic than my hair, dudes.
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love, 99
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trouble at home
[click image].
I was born in Marin General Hospital. I grew up in Marin. I didn't get away for very long any of the many times I tried until the last fifteen years. I know every inch of the place. Watched this world-famous civic center being built. I watched the old courthouse in downtown San Rafael burning down from bankster arsonists who wanted that prime city block. I lived there when every cop in the county hated one officious twit cop in San Anselmo who was endlessly trying to throw his weight around. The cops were always helpful and respectful and never ordered you around. NEVER came in to escalate anything, even for real criminals. They did their jobs. The worst that ever happened in front of me was when they came to nab a really tall perp and picked the wrong really tall man to nail. The perp was laughing as he sauntered down the street and the cops were all quaking over Randy's size and jumped him in unison to keep him from getting away. They made a big show, hauled him off to the Blue Roof Inn and gave him back to me a few hours later, with apologies. I saw a really mean dyke jail keeper talking scary to a drunk woman while I was there.
Times have changed. And someone should taser the hairdo at the news desk, and a bunch of guys should go after every cop that pulls that shit, order him/her around with absolutely NO right, and then start tasing away for the power trip of it all, see how he/she likes it... then go tase their bosses for good measure. The jackasses swagger around like traffic stops are Miami Vice episodes, every citizen is a goddam murderating drug kingpin or terrorist. Scare the pee out of everyone with that twisted-sissy crap. Worsen everything. Packs of defenestrated castrati, cruising America for people to take it out on.
This isn't going to improve until we MAKE it improve. Groups should visit local cop shops and remind them of what is and isn't their place. Whenever the cops show up anywhere people should come out to make sure they don't maltreat their victims, and if they do, people should scream bloody murder, take them to court, demand their arrest, MAKE IT STOP... or sit back and wait for their own numbers to be up.
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love, 99
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i wish i didn't love you so
[click image].
I spent a bunch of time getting all the functionality stuck back in, and having to be extra clever at it because I'm me, then trotted off to rare haunts and smacked right into another toolbar, not Israeli, gotten in fact from Sabbah, so seriously unlikely to be of Israeli extraction. This meant a heck of a lot more fiddling, and I just damn well did it.
If people hate this, I'd like to know. I can set it to default to collapsed mode—which if you click the little arrows at the very rightmost of the bar, you will see how that looks—and then you could just open it when you need it, but... well... it's kind of not very obvious for newbies then what to do about this stuff. I could put a note at the top of the sidebar where to go for translation and sharing and searching and the feed link. I made a little 99 button that will take you to THE comprehensive list of any place at which you ever never knew you should be hanging. It's not as daunting as it looks. You can start to type the name of where you want to go and, bam, the list grows way manageable right away. I also stuck what seemed to me the least offensive choices for sharing on TwitFace. I think those buttons will get you to those places fine and dandy, but, not being a member of any of them, I can't be a hunnert percent sure.
I'm not feeling so damn modern anymore. I'm feeling old and tired. For such a daffodil, I really CAN muscle code into submission and make little icons and all kinds of things that would send my analog friends screaming off down the middle of the highway to flag down help, but the old laser is flickering.... Or it is NOW, after all these hours of hassling and my contacts growing dry from gaping at all these itty things.
I know full well that this is vacation week for at least half of America and things drop off like crazy till mid-September or so, so this is an ideal time to try something new that I'm not sure I can hang with, but it's the WORST time because that's when the fewest people will be around to opine on this matter. So. Hell. Pull over and go WiFi for a minute. I need yer opinion.
I'm still looking around for some expertise in making me a gizzy that pops out like the icon swooshes on Macs. I think I found something that almost works but needs more functions and so I'm trying to get advice on if it's doable to add to it. It's not so likely I can find a free and affable expert with the time and patience, but, well, surprises happen and then you will have a whole nuther toy to mess around with here.
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Oh, oh, and when I get the energy I can add a bunch of choices of search engines for the toolbar, and if yer really mortified by life, sorta frozen in yer tracks, try translating this to wild languages! It's amusing as heck.
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love, 99
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whereas more and more line up to hear a man who speaks his truth
[click image].
He's withstood the worst public ridicule to awaken you. Even if you don't believe a word he says about how things are, you have to love the guy to bits for trying his heart out for everyone, for the whole world, for all sentient beings.
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love, 99
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02 September 2010
world's worst public speaker
[click image, video, at least an hour].
Much as one has to love Chris Hedges, his sanctimony and self-congratulation drive me up all my walls at the same time. I know, however, that many, many people heavily approve of what he he says, so I brung it t'ya, k?
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Okay. I made it fifteen minutes before I had to snap it off. A buddha needs to shoot a silver bullet into his third eye or something. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. He's such an insufferable prig about stuff that should be evident to everyone, and MIGHT be evident to more people if he could get OFF his towering pulpit and the pukitude of his self-regard.
He's not trying to HELP anything! He thinks he is! He's too busy sliming us with pomposity and ego problems instead.
WHAT A FUCKING WASTE!
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Meanwhile, for comparison's sake, edit KO's partisan blather from this short clip and just hear Jeremy Scahill. Did not Jeremy Scahill make you feel and think more in those couple of minutes than Hedges did in his whole long monologue with the gods?
Yes. Yes, he did. No sanctimony. No self-regard. All fact-filled fire.
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love, 99
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loose change
[click image, video, hour and a half, via Old Uncle Dave].
How the World Changed: Symposium of Critical Thinkers Sept. 11-12
Presented by the International News Net, Worldwide WebcastI hope I'm around to try to help facilitate your participation in this event, but I may be down with my dying Poppa.
WHERE: Walker Stage – 56 Walker Street, New York, NY
WHEN: 12 noon on Sat. Sept. 11th through 6pm Sun. Sept. 12th
ADMISSION: $20 suggested donation per session, each session includes 2 panels, seating limited to 175
TICKETS: See Paypal links
This event will be web cast for viewers around the world! Check back soon for further details.
We invite you to join us as we host 8 panel discussions over 2 days which will explore the important changes in our world since the attacks of 9/11 and the ever increasing need to understand its relevance.
Format — Each panelist will make a presentation following a brief topic intro by the moderator, who will then question and challenge each panel member. There will be Q&A for each panel with the studio and online audience.
PANEL 1 — 12:15pm – 2:15pm: The 4th Estate Fails In Its Duty And The Birth Of Alternative Media
It has often been said ‘The first casualty of war is truth’. What about truth in the never ending war on terror? This first panel will look at modern reporting, military censorship, taboos, and techniques often used by media to hide the truth. A look at spin and sell and the false legitimacy added by today’s mega networks. Panelists will also explore the use of revisionist news as events are entered into the history books. The panel will explore the birth of the citizen journalist movement, open publishing, and alternative broadcasting.
Moderator: Priya Reddy
The Panelists: Robin Andersen: Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordam University. Danny Schecter: author, filmaker and commentator on economic issues. Lynn Landes: publisher of The Landes Report, contributing writer to the Philadelphia Inquirer Christina Borjesson: award winning journalist and author of ‘Into the Buzzsaw, Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press’
PANEL 2 — 2:30pm – 4:30pm: Truth and Consequences: ‘Resistance is Futile’, Or Is It?
A look at gains and disappointments of different social and political movements since 9-11. Four leaders of the anti-war and social justice movements speak on their experiences and the struggle to mobilize people against war, oppression, and government policies after 9-11. Panelists will look back at the Bush years and examine the current difficulty of mobilizing against the new friendly face of war under Barak Obama, as Bush’s policies remain unchanged. This panel will also look at how differing analysis between leftist scholars and independent researchers on the events and repercussions of Sept. 11th, 2001 have split the left.
Moderator: Sam Husseini
The Panelists: Cindy Sheehan: American activist Elaine Brower: Military families for Peace and ‘World Can’t Wait’ Matthis Chiroux: Iraq Vets Against the War Sara Flounders: movement organizer: Answer, IAC
PANEL 3 — 4:45pm – 6:45pm: Goodbye 4th Amendment: Your Government is Watching You!
9-11 and the Rise of the Security State. A look at the Patriot Act and other laws, as well as new interpretations of the law which have eroded privacy and the ability to travel freely without fear of unlawful search and seizure. Panelists will recount how decisions, often politically motivated, have thwarted and hindered vital investigations which may have changed the course of history. This panel will also address the unregulated and expanded use and sharing of databases amongst newly formed private quasi-security agencies.
Moderator: Daniel Sunjata
The Panelists: Ray Mcgovern: former CIA analyst Katherine Albrecht: leading privacy advocate, co-author of Spychips: How Major Corporations Plan to Track your Every Move with RFID Coleen Rowley: former FBI agent and whistleblower Annie Machon: former British MI5 agent
PANEL 4 — 7pm – 9pm: Rule of Law: Speak Truth to Power and Pay the Price
In a democracy debate is essential, unless, of course, you object to the ever more profitable war machine. Three leading American politicians and a former member of England’s Parliament will look at how their governments and their own parties ousted them and others like them for taking a stance against war and equality.
Moderator: Tom Kiely
The Panelists: Mike Gravel: former Democratic Alaska US senator and presidential candidate Don Siegelman: former Alabama governor falsely convicted and jailed in a Bush era political prosecution. George Galloway: former member of Parliament for 23 years , and international Antiwar leader. Ousted from Britons Labor party for his antiwar stance. Cynthia Mckinney: former Democratic Georgia congresswoman targeted questioning the official 9/11 narrative and for her anti war views
PANEL 5 — 11am – 1pm: Islamophobia and the Rise of Hate in the US
As the human rights of Muslims were sacrificed in wars outside the U.S.A., Muslims inside the U.S. began to experience overt attacks and persecution fueled by a misguided and generalized hate. In this panel, representatives of several major Muslim organizations discuss the rise of hate against their communities and its effects on all communities and on the world. After 9/11 many experienced what seemed to be a coordinated effort to legally justify racial profiling, police brutality and economic boycott. We’ll take a close look at state sponsored fear and media sanctioned hate. Was 9-11 the end of equality for Muslim citizens and the end of freedom to worship wherever and whenever you please if your not a Christian or a Jew? This panel will also look at the Ground Zero Islamic cultural center controversy.
Co-Moderators: Ryme Katkhouda and Enver Masud
Ryme Katkhouda: is a member of the National Council of Arab Americans, Director of the Peoples MEDIA Center in Washington and a Sr. Producer at Pacifica Radio. Enver Masud:is founder and CEO of the Wisdom Fund and the recipient of the 2002 Gold Award from the Human Rights Foundation for his book The War on Islam. He is also a co-author of Islam: Opposing Viewpoints, and 9/11 and American Empire.
The Panelists: Wright Mahdi Bray: Executive Director of the Muslim American Society’s Freedom Foundation Abed A. Ayoub, Esq.: is the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee’s Legal Director. 2 more TBA
PANEL 6 — 1:15pm – 3:15pm: Distrust Your Government: How Conspiracy Theorists Become Conspiracy Realists
This panel will peer behind the scenes of events that shape our world. The real motives of power are often hidden behind noble pretexts. This panel will shine light into the archives of historical and future plans for managing and handling societies.
Moderator Brian Madden:
The Panelists: Peter Dale Scott: professor at U.C. Berkely, author of American War Machine: Deep Politics, the Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan Mark Crispin Miller: Author, NYU media professor, recent books include Fooled Again Michael Parenti: award winning, internationally known American political scientist, historian 1 other TBA
PANEL 7 — 4:15pm -6:15pm: Are We Patriots or Are We Terrorists? Have We Grown Afraid of Our Own Government?
Why have we grown afraid of our own government? A look at racial profiling, the home grown terror legislation movement, the merging of the war on terror and the war on drugs, and the threat of collapse of civilization.
Moderator: Tony Bates, WBAI
The Panelists: Wayne Madsen: investigative journalist former NSA analyst, publisher of ‘The Wayne Madsen Report’ Mike Ruppert: investigative journalist, fouunder ‘From the Wilderness’, author of Crossing the Rubicon, center of the documentary ‘Collapse’ Hank Albarelli: author of A TERRIBLE MISTAKE: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments. Ralph Schoenman: author of The Hidden History of Zionism; Iraq and Kuwait, and co-host of Taking Aim with Mya Shone on Pacifica Radio and the Progressive Radio Network Gary Franchi: founder of the Lone Lantern Society of America and current head of RestoreTheRepublic.com
PANEL 8 — 6:30pm -8:30pm: The Science Of 9-11: Myths And Miracles
If 1+1=2, somebody’s lying here. Reports have emerged in accredited journals from scientists presenting evidence which contradicts the official version of 9/11. A close and fair look at the government’s science and that of independent professionals who disagree.
Moderator: Lenny Charles
The Panelists: Kevin Ryan: former UL labs technician fired for leaking the steel stress tests of the twin towers Richard Gage, AIA: Founder of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth Niels Harritt: associate professor of chemistry at the University of Copenhagen and author of a recently published scientific article in The Open Chemical Physics Journal Crockett Grabbe: Caltech astrophysicist, and University of Iowa research professor who worked on the starwars program
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love, 99
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this IS the perils of pauline!
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OMG... after finally becoming comfortable enough for the moment with my new floating gizzy, I started familiarizing myself with the site somewhat better. Better late than never I guess, but... OMG... it's an ISRAELI company. So pft. Floating gizzy be gone. I am endeavoring to put it together to get something even better, but gotta ask some experts some questions first, so it might be a while. If it's going to be very long at all, I'll put back in the old shit until I can get it handled.
Jesus.
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OKAY.
Maybe I can figger how to make myself a really elegant little toolbox for the sidebar that will let you do all sortsa things and get rid of all these blots on my blog at that time. In the meantime, at least I'm not helping people like an Israeli product. Sheesh. What a drag.
Oh, oh, and you'll love THIS: In the midst of fiddling with this floaty gizzy thing yesterday, I somehow managed to yank all my posts from my page. So I had to go to my backup template, and when I did THAT, it put the Google Analytics back on. IT IS NOW GONE AGAIN, and for good. I don't know what it was registering to, if anything, because I closed the account.
Anyway. I think I'll put a drap of brandy in my cold coffee now.
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love, 99
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thought experiments for frustrating the lizards
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It should juxtapose nicely with today's Keiser Report.
Beside still getting waaaaay bummed by conversations such as the one this morning between Horton and Rockwell over at Antiwar, I am finding in my daily wandering that very many libertarians of the left or right are very big on loving thy neighbor and telling the truth, whatever foibles fall in there with them. It blows my mind that guys with political views that set most progressives off have been the loudest against the fascism and environmental catastrophe of the whole Gulf Blowout mess. Staunch, STAUNCH Christians are the most avid to get out the information that debunks the literal interpretation of the Bible, and toil away to bring us the facts about the "alternative" physics that becomes more obviously correct than the mainstream one taught as gospel in our schools and that garners billions in grants to perpetuate itself—with Creationism being NO part of their endeavor.
I think about things like, really, who CARES if some people are racists or homophobes or stupid or greedy or what-the-heck-ever? They're still our brothers and sisters and they DO have positive things to contribute, and who actually communicate lovingly with you, despite your political or social or racial or personal leanings, if you but communicate with them respectfully. HOW could that be such an obstacle for ANYONE? How could we be getting our own episodes on al Jazeera titled Is America Becoming Polarized? I'm like, hey, Sherlock, WTF is that in yer pipe that this is occurring to you as a topic only now? Crikey.
It's so STUPID, and worse than useless. It's actually dangerous, TO US, not to them. It's like Chris says, you don't have to MARRY these people. You don't have to agree with them on a whole lot of things to get along with them well enough to create the kind of society that can get back the reins from the space lizards.
So could we branch out in our occasional thought experiments with hearing the proponents of out there to hearing everyone else? Hearing Tea Partiers, homophobes, racists, fascists-in-denial, conspiracy nuts, religious kooks, the works? Could we look at it as though it were the modern equivalent of barn raising? Everyone from all around would come to help newcomers get their barns up fast, and the newcomers would become part of the greater community this way. People of different faiths and different political views and different economic circumstances would all have an unbreakable kind of solidarity with each other, be able to interact and to work together despite all differences, build their world into something flourishing and strong. The same can come of just deciding to drop everything you already think to HEAR other people, not let your manipulated mind and experience jerk your knee up to bash you in the chin so hard all your teeth break every single time somebody words something in a manner that offends you, or talks about stuff you think is bullshit, all of it. That's COMPLETELY unhealthy and counterproductive. You need to keep trying it to find out you like it, you live through it and come out better every time.
You're not gonna marry them. You have NO duty to attend their church or their parties. They're your fellows anyway, whether you like them or not, and there is great strength in finding solidarity with them. If you unplug from groupthink, shun all wildly partisan propaganda and just hear people without the filter, it will open the door to the way to make things work out well.
I swear it.
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i am such a darn modern girl
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And it only LOOKS as though I can't make up my mind. After all that dramatizing of my internet aggravations yesterday, they sent me a little email and told me how I could turn off that obnoxious feature of using their cool little toolbar, and so now I'm trying out that cool little toolbar.
The search function is now in the floaty gizzy at the bottom of your screen. You can switch between searching here and searching the whole web, which, in THIS configuration might actually end up making more sense to me than it did before. It's back to Google, but it works better and we need the stuff to work better.
If you want to subscribe to my feed, just click the little broadcasty icon on the floaty gizzy and Bob's yer uncle.
If you want to share stuff you find here at any of various sharing and gossiping social media, you just click the little plus icon on the floaty gizzy and yer happenin'.
If you want the fucking floaty gizzy to get out of your face, just click the little down arrows icon at the far right of the floaty gizzy and fspt it turns into a very cute little bitty floaty gizzy that can't possibly give offense... until, of course, the next time.
This has enabled me to feel both modern and affable, accommodating. Flexible. Positive. New. And, now life is at least as easy for you here as it is for those who take the feed... AND nicer by far to behold. Please give me your feedback on this new item. I can go back to putting the little unobtrusive icon thing under each post, if everyone hates floaty gizzies.
And, yes, really really late appearance today, because the first thing I did online was listen to Scott Horton interviewing Lew Rockwell and it made me feel like the room was spinning around me. I have a fair level of respect for both those men, but if I have to hear them talking together like that again, I might have to break something. Then, of course, I set about the headache of getting everything done about the floaty gizzy and removing, improving and moving other stuff on the page here.
So. Welcome to the thoroughly modern n e u f n e u f....
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NOT.
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they've finished restoring the bedroom
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I feel some trepidation.
I think they may have taken too much Vincent out of it.
Don't forget his letters.
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01 September 2010
peter b and sibel talk to ray mcgovern — UPDATING
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... Vladimir Putin's opposite number in a state spy organ. Just needed to reïterate the asininity of thinking Putin is some kind of devil because he was a KGB agent. Putin joined the KGB at age 23 and resigned at age 40. McGovern, after serving as an intelligence officer in the military for a couple years, spent twenty-seven years in the CIA, and decorated by Bush for his service, before retiring. I am not besmirching McGovern. I'm saying you're being a thoughtless ass for thinking Putin is some kind of demon on this basis.
It's also my opinion that you are being a thoughtless ass if you think Putin has been killing all those journalists and spies, when he has so many murderous billionaire oligarchs working full time to discredit him. Yes, if I were Putin, I'd have rounded them up, locked them all in the slammer and thrown away the key. Putin only told them they could keep their filthy lucre so long as they NEVER interfered in politics in any way. A distinctly anti-fascist move, designed to get the most for the Russian economy while protecting it from further depredation by billionaire crime bosses. He has been as good as his word. He leaves them alone, but the moment they start trying to take over media organs and political movements, kabam, they're locked up. Much more difficult and dangerous than my way, but probably better for the people of Russia, given all the givens.
I don't know Putin's soul—haven't Dubya's powers of insight, I guess—but I want you to quit solidifying around all the bullshit propaganda you've been fed, and hysterical raving and finger pointing by people more avid to lap that up than even you are. If you have seen nothing else by visiting this blog, you have to have started putting it together that our minds have been being controlled for our whole lives, that our time in school was about planting all the basic misrepresentations upon which to perpetuate our exploitation.
We have no viable basis for dissing Putin or Russia, while Putin and Russia have a multitude of bases for dissing us.
And I've given up on the Wikileaks controversies because they have now muddied it all so hopelessly that it doesn't bear comment anymore, that it's actually wrong to comment on it at all now... even though, obviously, others don't see it that way.
So, viva Wikileaks.
If you listen to McGovern droning, here, all the way through, he seems to be making a pretty good case that the danger of Israel attacking Iran any day now is high....
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For your entertainment...
I just went out to inspect my garden, pluck bits of tree duff from the Scottish moss, see if I oughta water, scrutinize the daisy scene, ignore for once the weeds, that sort of thing... and my neighbor yelled out her window that she thought I ought to write a book and call it The Barefoot Contessa. I told her I thought that had already been done. She says a sequel would be just the thing.
Sigh.
I should have asked to speak with her husband, just to goose her....
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For your convenience...
I've noticed people coming in from various social media sites and so I got over myself enough to make it easier for you to share this stuff when you are inclined.
I tried doing it with this cool gizzy that floats along at the bottom of your screen
Having thus put myself on the precipice of a headache, I will now engage in my coffee thing and chill.
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For my aggravation...
Not having my medicine coffee yet, I just noticed that now Blogger has put stats on my dashboard... on top of the whole comments and spam malarkey.... No sooner do I nix Google Analytics for being Google Analytics on TOP of not being accurate, which none of them are, none—let me repeat—none of them are accurate, and not very edifying at all, being mostly geared toward people wishing to gauge themselves against targets they set for themselves, or some such twaddle, than they decide to put their bullshit stats on my dashboard!
What is this?
The Perils of Pauline?
Crikey.
Anyway, I think Blogger must be feeling the pain from too many moving over to WordPress, because they are trying to make this have all the functions of WordPress blogs. I'd've moved to WordPress if they'd let me have my goddam template. They would if I pay, and they would if I wanna use their software on my own site, which involves paying too. So I guess Blogger/Google is trying to prevent more defections or something. They could probably recoup a lot of popularity simply by returning to conformance with their old motto; to wit: DON'T BE EVIL. But that, I guess, would be too much like altruistic or something, and fascists aren't having ANY o' dat.
Right. Coffee.
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For Edna's edification...
Someone by the name of Edna, I hope not my aunt, wants to know how I can be so assertive about stats being inaccurate. I know because I have had friends who were obsessed with stats and popularity ratings on certain ratings services. I have NOT been able to hang with that stuff, even as I have tried to be a good neighbor, a good Netizen, and do what I can to help, with links and joining services, the works. I tried to go along peacefully with that stuff, but then I started noticing wild anomalies, which put me in mind to try out the various and sundry popularity enhancing tools and stats services and ratings systems... all that shit... and see if I could find some measure of uniformity, or even a trend toward yielding up a viable notion when combining them all in some abstract formula. Zip. Bubkes. No dice. The places purporting to keep track of who's linking to you miss shitloads of them. The places purporting to rate your popularity miss shitloads of them AND adopt some completely inscrutable formula for deciding your popularity rating, and, sure enough, your rating goes up and down, sometimes by hundreds of points, with NO correlation to any other measuring device extant. At whim. Not any of the services that count your visitors, at least none of the free ones, agree on Thing One. They can diverge from hundreds of hits to thousands of hits, according to cosmic alignments only.
I then took each in turn and did everything I could to test the patency of their information. Not only could I not make them count or reflect any of these testing maneuvers with any reliability, but as though by karma, things would happen, accidental discoveries be made, that showed it was NOT just me. It was happening to everyone. And systems you felt you could contribute to in order to boost someone or some post you admired, could be and WERE being GAMED by maniacs, to actually make it more harmful to speak up for some truth teller or other than to just nut up. It seems that if you insist on these things, the best way is to just pick one and tell yourself to believe that, which I, of course, do NOT endorse, delusion being very low on my totem pole. I kept ONE of the stats services because OCCASIONALLY it lets me identify an asshole... which I am happy to report is not necessary very often.
Maybe paid services are more reliable. Probably not.
I'm sure it's all new and improved from the satanic games at Digg and Reddit over at MyBook and TwitFace and SpaceBuzz, for whatever other failings I'm certain inhere, but I'm crazy enough, thank you. You are welcome to go there, and now you can even go some of there from here, but that's as far as I can go.
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For my entertainment...
I rented "Brooklyn's Finest" since Richard Gere is in it; "The City of Your Final Destination" because I have to find out; and "Date Night" because that Carell guy is so pleasantly putzy. I need a rest from my doctoral blitz. That stuff Farrell was talking about last night fried my circuits. I gotta slow up to get all my wires back in order.
I may even put some brandy in my evening blueberry thing.
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For your information...
Date Night was a dud, with some very, very funny spots in it. Steve Carell is so entertaining, but I was disappointed by pretty much all the rest of it.
Brooklyn's Finest was sad and horrible and Richard Gere was the very least engaging of anyone in it. That was hard to bear. He just wasn't convincing at all... or rather... went sooooo far into the empty shell he was playing that he was just, well... completely empty. Don Cheadle and Ethan Hawke were riveting... even though the plot lines and situations were outright horrifying. The movie really slammed the living shit out of upper level law enforcement, and placed the cops down here with us human refuse. Still, I don't think it excuses them. I won't think it until they start realizing who they are and who we are... and pick the right side.
The City of Your Final Destination was mostly a day dream, a dream of love and gorgeous loneliness. They had to throw in a bit about the parents who had to flee the Nazis, the parents who didn't feel safe anywhere, just had to elevate the suffering of the chosen while it went about making us dream. Great acting, mostly, and gorgeous setting, but I really hated having to be jarred awake at the end.
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nobody's falling for the twaddle this time either
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I don't even want to think about anyone having put themselves through Genghis Ponzi Yoo's declaration of pure bullshit. It'll just make me angrier. Great excuse for not denying Iraqi airspace to Israel, too.
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i know you still think i'm just being colorful
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You need to shake out yer head to open it. I'm not talking about what everybody agrees is open-mindedness—isn't that just such a nice feather in yer cap?—I'm talking about actually opening it.
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it isn't just yer kids
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TURN OFF YER TV.
There are a million fascinating books to read, and it's much more relaxing. Do you know how many GREAT magazines you can get for the price of your cable bill? Do you realize how much straighter you can think when the world isn't bombarding you with cultural conditioning and baldfaced lies and subliminal messages to sell you the wrong things and ideas?
Snap out of it.
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