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The Vidiot's weekly blog: What pissed me off this week? 5/30/2005 (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!
Free stuff can be found 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/ The filibuster 'deal' was something else, huh? I don't like it very much. It sure feels like the dems caved again. I mean, I was looking at the whole filibuster thing as a win/win for the dems side. If the dems had the votes, they would've bitched-slapped Frist right out of the 2008 election. If the dems didn't have the votes, they could've paraded around the talk-show circuit accusing the republicans of being a bunch of fascists. I know, some might argue that had the dems not had the votes, then a bunch of nasty conservative activist judges would get confirmed. But I'm sorry, even with this stupid agreement, Pricilla Owens got confirmed. So I ask: What the hell did the dems gain?? Color me stupid I guess but I don't think this deal will hold up. It's about as likely to float your average rock. And I doubt very much that Dobson fellow will give up so easily. Put the filibuster thing aside, and please, let's just shove it to the side for a while because it's almost as much of a waste of breath as the Michael Jackson trial, why the hell aren't these friggin' idiots talking about the Downing Street Memo?! It's a landmine! It's the equivalent of someone standing up and yelling "Fire!" in movie theater... when there's actually a fire! Where's the outrage? The media, as usual, is silent. No protests have been called (well, not before September anyway), no sit-ins, no starve-ins, nothing. Just a lame little petition that may or may not have any effect but will give arm-chair activists the illusion that they've actually done something. The phone boards of all major media and as well as Congress should be lit up with pissed off citizens saying "what the fuck?" That memo, (Which is actually not memo by the way. Calling it a memo marginalizes it. It's really the minutes of a meeting.) has everything in it that proves that GW wanted war from the get go! Not only that, there's even more evidence that Bush and Blair, in May of 2002 -- months before UN Resolution 1441 was passed -- doubled the rate their bombing of Iraq to try and instigate Saddam into retaliating. Read that again. I'll wait. Are you pissed of now? Good. For crying out loud people! Wake up! It doesn't get any worse that this. These guys lied, cheated and stole from this country. They've killed and maimed our soldiers. They've tortured and killed innocent people. They've polluted, destroyed, humiliated and angered an entire region and its population and they're lining other countries up for attack. (Who knows what else they've been up to.) They're wreaking havoc with our -- the People's -- constitution and they're still sitting on their saggy, lilly white asses, sipping cognac and laughing at the little people and for what?! Some freakin' delusional idea of American Empire!? Are they high? Is that justifiable? Our society should rule all others? Why? Are we that friggin' special? I'll tell you we're not. I'll tell you we are fat, lazy, selfish and lethargic. Are those the values we want the rest of the world to have? Get those cretins out of our White House! (Read this week's Voice of the White House installment.) Jeebus they've pissed me off this week. Funny Site of the Week: I'm a Japanese school teacher. Blog of the Week: Stories in America Math Site of the Week: The Prime Number Shitting Bear History Site of the Week: Old Advertisements Link Exchange of the Week: Funny Farm Revisited Videos of the Week: The Skateboarding Bulldog Graduation Speech of the Week: Howard Zinn Science Article of the Week: Cosmology 303: You Are Here Audio of the Week: Deep Space More Audio of the Week: GW admitting to spreading propaganda Animal of the Week: The standing red panda How-to of the Week: Fabricating Fingerprints Squirrel of the Week: Sugar Bush Squirrel Pictures of the Week: Little Urchins Coincidence of the Week: 911 graduates in the 9/11 class at West Point. News of the Weird I've moved News of the Weird to the top this week because there's something really weird going on in Las Vegas. I'm not saying it's true. I'm not saying it's not a stunt. I'm not condoning, verifying or vouching for anything in this video (wmv). I'm just putting it out there in the event that, if something DOES happen, you heard it here first.
Of course, if it is true, maybe this weird, glowing spot on Titan is an alien moon-base city or something.
I'll have
a "reporter on the scene" next week. Actually, she's a girlfriend
from high school who's taking her whole family there for a vacation. I
told her that if the aliens come and offer to take her away that she has
to say no, because I need her here. (Maybe she should suggest they take
Bush and Cheney instead??) Anyway, she says she'll take pictures if something
other than an Elvis sighting occurs.
Hero of the Week David McSwane for catching recruiters doing bad bad things to fill their quotas.
Pandemic Update As if we don't have enough to worry about, seems China is hiding the number of avian flu deaths.
Indeed. Also, avian flu has jumped to pigs, which, oddly (or not so oddly) enough, are more like humans.
Brace yourselves, it could be a bumpy ride.
The Corporation is Evil Or, in other words, a large corporation is pushing for laws that benefit its profit margins, no matter what the public wants or needs.
Or, in other words, they SAY they don't want you to be embarrassed at the checkout counter, but they really mean is that they won't tell you when you overdraft so they can charge you a hefty fee.
(They're doing it here too)
War Prep: China I actually read this whole article about China as the military foe of the future
And was pretty convinced that's what is going to happen next. But why? Could it be that once China withdraws its financial support, we'll need something to keep the economy going, like a huuuuuuge war? Just positing.
So, guess where there was a large earthquake last week?
Rest Easy Middle East Even though Bush et al are ramping up the nuclear program again
The Middle East has little to fear from being nuked. I mean, how stupid would that be? Nuking most of the oil, making it unusable for about, oh, I dunno, 10,000 years.
Watch what you eat. Don't eat the beef.
Gee, and what do you think happened to the good doc after he said that he wanted to expose the extent of mad cow in our food? Dead.
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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