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The Vidiot's weekly blog: What pissed me off this week? 1/31/2005 (updated every Monday at some point during the day) ...'cause I'm angry and my friends are sick of listening to me... Track your congresscritters here! Mirror (in case geocities is wacky or, in case of trouble in New York, check it for messages): http://129.79.148.33/vidiotcontact/ Corporations getting bigger only benefits the corporations, not their customers. Case in point: Verizon. Verizon sucks. There. I wrote it and I'll write it again, this time with an adverb: VERIZON ROYALLY SUCKS! Without going into too much tiresome detail, suffice it to say that after nearly 3 weeks of trying to do something simple, the incompetence of Verizon has really been an experience. Yes, yes, yes, all this conglomeration and merging and BIGness is SOOO much better for the customer. We LOVE having our problems dealt with by a myriad of incompetent people in a myriad of cities across the globe. Yes, yes, yes. That is SO MUCH more efficient... for the company. Well, I say FUCK these companies. Damn greedy bastards. They would rather buy up a competitor, lay off the redundant portion of the workforce, expect the remaining workforce to do twice the work for the same pay, claim the new company as an asset thereby boosting their stock price while at the same time, claim the new company on their taxes as an expense for the friggin' tax break. All of this and more in the name of PROFIT. Meanwhile, those of us at the mercy of the new BIG company get screwed. AND they want to increase the taxes on us, the users, for the discomfort. Yeah, the free market is such a good thing. It's such a good thing for everyone except the people who actually need to USE the market. Oh, and my apartment? Still a shithole. On the political front, the Iraqi elections went off without a hitch (No matter what the turnout actually was, though, look for the our media to try to maintain a number over 50% so an "electoral mandate" can be assumed.) ...that's if you believe what our evil media has to say. I swear, watching them, you'd think the world was made out of cotton candy with lollypop trees and soda pop water. (If I see the image of Iraqi's dancing in the streets ONE MORE TIME, I'll have to scratch my eyes out.) Just once, I'd like the our media to explain what this election really means. It's not an election per se. Nobody really won. The Iraqis are just selecting groups of people, based on party affiliation, to write a constitution. It's not an election as we understand them. Don't get excited. It's only the first step of many steps that need to be taken before the Bushies can actually manipulate a national vote and install their permanent puppet.
Cool Idea of the week: Car Balloons List of the Week: 50 most Loathsome People Senseless Toy of the Week (that I inexplicably want): Groob Picture of the Week: The Dumbest Guy on Earth Interesting Comparison of the Week: Decline Of American Culture - Lyrics Then & Now Cool Tech of the Week: Bendable Organic Display Panel Movie Clip of the Week: Inauguration Protest Speech of the Week: Ted Kennedy Reaction to the Speech of the Week: Delusional Repuglicans Must-Read Article of the Week: Jeb, Marvin & Neil - 3 Profiteering Bush Brothers What Our Media Won't Be Talking About This Week: Bad news Asshole
of the Week
David Chu for saying that veteran's benefits are "hurtful" to national security.
Short-sighted
baboons.
Payola
for Propaganda
Now we know why the media is going after the bloggers like a pack of wild dogs. They want to create a smokescreen for the real story: the fact that a lot of those creepy right-wing pundits are on the Bush payroll (a.k.a. at the tax payer's expense). Last week it was that Armstrong Williams guy. This week it's Maggie Gallagher.
And Mark McManus.
Not to mention the ribald hypocrisy of Jeff Gannon.
Oh, and by the way, Sean Hannity? Scumbag.
There is no way that these are the only ones with conflicts of interest. It's only the tip of the iceberg and it's heading straight for the USS Presstitute! Looking
Southward
Seems to me something is going on down there in South America.
Gee, I wonder why?
Look for much jostling between Venezuela and Columbia, which will then provoke the US to bolster its troop numbers along the border in Columbia, ostensibly to "protect" their Columbian interests, but really to be poised to block any expansions by Russia via Brazil and China via Venezuela and Argentina. But hey, I'm just guessing. I'm
shocked. I really am. [yawn]
Oh, I would never have guessed this. Not in a million years.
BBC,
caught telling the truth, was immediately punished.
I was watching the BBC news when they reported that most of the civilian casualties were from coalition forces. My jaw dropped. I'm just not used to hearing the truth coming out of my TV anymore.
I guess the powers that be didn't like that version of the truth though.
Gee, so I guess these guys are like totally wrong.
The
coming pandemic
Great. Now cats can get bird flu. And people have cats as pets which means there's an even greater chance that the thing can mutate and pass onto humans.
Yet another reason to hate cats. Gotchya!
Here are two instances that I'd like someone to check to see if Bush had his fingers crossed behind his back when he said it. The first is about the aforementioned Payola-for-Propaganda issue:
(Of course, he didn't say anything about the UNDERSecretaries hiring columnists...) And this about media conglomeration
Look for these same pet issues to be reprised at a later date with the same objectives but entirely new framing, provided by the good people at the GOP-favored PR firm, I Have No Soul, Inc. I can't hardly wait! Blackops
Econ 101
Of course they did. How else are they going to fund their undeclared wars in South America?
Don't
expect the media to make this connection for you.
Hmmmm, why did Douglass Feith resign I wonder.
Could it be he might be implicated in the AIPAC spy scandal?
And in another blistering example of hypocrisy, Tony Blankley, editor of the Moonie-owned Washington Times, is saying Seymour Hersh should be tried for espionage for his recent expose in the New Yorker.
Now let me get this straight: Blankley works for Rev. Moon. Rev. Moon is a cult leader who believes he is the Messiah and has called for the U.S. Constitution to be scrapped. Not only that, Blankley sides with the same "team" that isn't calling for Bob Novak's head with regards to the outing of Valerie Plame. Hello? Manipulation
Watch
Beware. The media is once again kow-towing to the Whitehouse and using the words "Personal Accounts" Instead of "Private Accounts" when speaking about Social Security.
Be aware and be unaffected. RIP
Posse Comitatus
Here's a little noticed breaking of the law. During the inauguration, the military was there to maintain peace and order.
Yes, it's always better to have peace and order maintained by people who are trained to shoot first and ask questions later. Bored
Cops
Do you really need to bust some woman's chops for eating an apple while driving?
Or bust someone's chops for doing a favor for a neighbor?
Or bust someone for a bumper sticker?
Aren't there terrorists to track or former Halliburton CEOs to arrest? Mystery
of the Week
How did ALL of them get contaminated?
Too gross for words.
What do we do about all of this crap? I have no idea. Part of me wants to start teach-ins at my local pub. Just go to the bar, rant and rave and inform the idiots who still think Dan Rather is telling them the truth. Another part of me wants to organize a voter observation program to insure that this moron isn't in the White House all the way to 2008. I sincerely believe that if we protected the voting rights of the underprivileged that any Democrat could SWEEP any election. And we'd have to start with the Florida Election for Governor THIS FALL (like these guys!.) I don't think Democrats are the answer. But they are at least a start. At the very least, point your CNN-loving friends to my links page. Just getting started in reading alternate news sites gets people thinking. I have one friend who was very happy-go-lucky, thinking ol' Greta was telling the whole truth until I opened up his eyes a bit. Now, he's all depressed. He'll get over it. You gotta' get depressed before you get angry and you gotta' get angry before you can accomplish anything. We're all in mourning. We have to move through the steps. But we gotta' hurry it up. Read. Inform. Spread the word. Even if it means your friends avoid you for awhile. If they really love you, they'll start to listen.
"POSSE COMITATUS ACT" (18 USC 1385): A Reconstruction Era criminal law proscribing use of Army (later, Air Force) to "execute the laws" except where expressly authorized by Constitution or Congress. Limit on use of military for civilian law enforcement also applies to Navy by regulation. Dec '81 additional laws were enacted (codified 10 USC 371-78) clarifying permissible military assistance to civilian law enforcement agencies--including the Coast Guard--especially in combating drug smuggling into the United States. Posse Comitatus clarifications emphasize supportive and technical assistance (e.g., use of facilities, vessels, aircraft, intelligence, tech aid, surveillance, etc.) while generally prohibiting direct participation of DoD personnel in law enforcement (e.g., search, seizure, and arrests). For example, Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachments (LEDETS) serve aboard Navy vessels and perform the actual boardings of interdicted suspect drug smuggling vessels and, if needed, arrest their crews). Positive results have been realized especially from Navy ship/aircraft involvement. (Tom Ridge has practically said he'd do away with this act.)
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These sites are good at culling stories from a multitude of media sites: buzzflash.com
Bartcop
Ilia
Dreams Blog These blogs will be covering the primaries and elections: Salon.com's
War Room media-bias exposed:
onlinejournal.com
whatreallyhappened.com
HIGHLY entertaining:
and
for godsakes, stay away if you must succumb to reading a newspaper:
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