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number 63 for 10-1-05:
Knock Knock. Who's There? Indictment, Bitch!
Well, I've been away two days, that means I have a lot of shit to cover. Here goes…
Our Puritanical side in America rears its head more and more as the pendulum swings more and more conservative. Why? I don't fucking know, but it does. So they're trying to make it cost more to say fuck than to show an ass on television, and they're saying it's okay to show people eating blended hissing cockroaches, but perish forbid someone does what we ALL do, curse. At least, all of us who are sane, anyway.
Children do it. Children understand the words. Most do by the time their five unless they're incredibly sheltered, and I've never known ANYONE who turned to a life of crime because they cursed. Though I know quite a few people who were fucked up interminably by Puritanical parents who aren't satisfied with anything they say or do.
Evidence supports this. The witch-hunt continues.
An interesting study:
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They're taking the "intelligent design" case to trial. I am amused to no end that people seem to have no idea what the hell intelligent design is. I'm gonna totally screw up these numbers here, because I forgot to take screen caps, but I was watching the Gallup Poll a week or so ago, and they were talking about creationism vs. Darwinism.
Turns out most people believe in Darwinism, but most people also believe that God created the Earth in the last ten thousand years (creationism). And it turns out that a MINORITY of people believe in intelligent design. Which is a new euphemism for Creationism. What does that say? People who believe in creationism aren't really following the news, interested in anything that seems like an alternating theory, or willing to put stock into anything with "intelligent" in it. That's my take.
And now, because of stupid, belligerent assholes who want to push their beliefs on others, science, which ALREADY regards Darwin's THEORY as such, is now going to have to entertain a farcical notion within the scientific method. A notion that has, to wit, already been apologized for in centuries of dogma and never given a single, solitary shred of empirical evidence, unlike Darwinism, which has a shitload of fossil record, experimentation, and scientific credential behind it. Abominable.
If most people liked my column, does that mean it's worthy to be taught in journalism classes? NO. I do NOT adhere to the journalistic maxims whereby journalism is judged. That's part of the fun of it. And I would never push it on those putzes anyway.
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It gets ridiculous. We have a man trying to ban sports on Sunday because that's when the Lord said the day of rest was. Then a Jew steps in, proving how equally stupid he can be, and says, "The last day of the week is Saturday!"
The last day of the week is SUBJECTIVE. The end of my week, for instance, is Thursday night. It used to be Wednesday night. People are ENTITLED to believe what they want, and when you try and push your belief on them through law, you are a DICK when it's not patently, bio-ethically obvious that it benefits all or is the lesser of all evils. What day you take off is hardly a crisis.
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And furthermore, depending on what source you check out, a religious society as opposed to a secular society leads to more murder, abortion, promiscuity and suicide. I can see that. When people won't be free, friendly and open, you want to kill them. When people encourage you to have children without discretion without the means to take care of them, you want to kill the baby when you get pregnant. If someone says not to do something (sex) you want to do it more. And all of this, in concert, makes the world seem pretty hopeless. So you shoot yourself.
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And hey, even if you don't, remember, as the senators say, Katrina is the wrath of God. We asked for it.
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For those of you who are old-Republican, like me, and just believe that the current Republican party is not standing up to its principles, the wake of Katrina is yet another blow. George Bush is trying to take management of emergencies AWAY from local government and put all of the power to suppress and control emergencies in the control of the national government.
Problem? Republicans believe that municipalities should manage themselves, as do I. What the hell does someone in Washington know about Louisiana, as this last disaster so READILY proved.
What he should do is make a strong law to PUNISH any official who fails to maintain order in the event of a categorical emergency to the best of his or her abilities. But that would require politicians to take responsibility for their own actions. Something I've only see Bush do once.
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You might have read that they're stopping Google from archiving novels for the sake of ready availability to the masses. Court actions. Turns out it's a class action suit, naming members of the Author's Guild. Google tried to stop the controversy by allowing the authors to opt out, which is bullshit, because you can't guarantee an author would know about the event. On the other hand, as the below link points out, the author guild is equally a group of dicks, because they didn't offer the chance to opt out to any of the authors involved in the class action suit, even if they wanted the Google project to proceed.
My personal take? Media, art, we need to pay the artists for what they do. But we NEED an electronic archive of our fiction. Period. Paper burns. More good will come of an archive than bad from the loss of money to artists. Artists who are more concerned with their paycheck than their work disgust me. Across the board.
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Donald Trump is going to be a father. Whuppity shit. Who cares? I did want to point out, however, that the media is demonizing him because of his age. But what's better? Two fifteen year-olds fucking and having a kid with no money, or an old man who will be able to provide for that child living or dead popping one out?
Sterilize everyone. Fuck it.
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DELAY IS INDICTED! Woot! It had to happen the day I took off, but good. Granted, the charges are pretty lowball, and granted he'll probably weasel out of it, but he's been brought up on ethics charges so many damned times, and he's behind so many finky things, he really needed to go. Another proof that power corrupts. More and more, corrupt Republicans who stood behind the Clinton witch hunt are being axed by the same process, and they decry it now. Personally, I think we should scrutinize and prosecute all of the politicians constantly. Then only honesty will survive.
But DeLay…I've been reporting on his fuckarows and assholery for a year now. The man needed a good public whipping. Look at old Controversy, if his name is new. I've been on that prick for a while now.
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What the fuck is going on with penguins? First, the NEWS, the actual NEWS, reports on the fact that a gay penguin went straight. Are we that fucking obsessed with faggotry and pitiful corollary such as the thought that if a penguin can't stay gay, maybe being gay isn't natural? What are we, five?
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Apparently, because the Christian right is now using the biological coupling of penguins to argue for God. Not a joke.
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Thanks to Felix for that line of…whatever it is. Jesus.
At St. Vincent hospital in LA, corrupt staff moved a Saudi national forward on the organ donor program for graft that benefited the hospital. They were caught forging documents, and now they're under investigation.
In response, they have now shut down the organ donor program until further notice. GREAT. Now 75 people waiting in line for donation are not just cheated ONE back in the line, the line has entirely disappeared.
What fuckwits.
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You remember that report I did a few days back about GIs who are trading pictures of dead Iraqis that are particularly gruesome for a pass to a porn site, in violation of the Geneva Convention? Well, it appears the armed forces are looking into it! WOOOHOO!
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Or, wait. No, actually, they cancelled the investigation after 12 hours. Sorry, guys. Not important enough, apparently. Must be too busy preparing for Iran.
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The FBI wants veto power on all software. Meaning if they can't backdoor hack it, they may prevent it from coming out.
And the laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand of the freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
And the hoooooooooooooooooome of the braaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaave.
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They ticketed a woman for not having kids and sitting in a park that was designated for kids. How many parks are there where you can sit without kids bugging your ass. Discrimination. In fact, it's just fine to discriminate against people who don't have kids in this fucking country, period. I get sick of it. People who choose not to have children pay more taxes than they should, they have to deal with other people's choice to have children, and quite frankly, they're given almost as much shit as atheists towards being "immoral" just for wanting piece and quiet, good furniture, money, and peace and quiet. Fuck that.
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I wrote about how Cherynobl is being played down, and I was worried, because I thought it was the worst nuclear disaster in history and now it was being poo-pooed. Well guess what? There was one that was MUCH worse than Cherynobl that was hardly ever reported. Go figure. That scares me. I know my history, and I didn't know this shit. Scary.
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A reporter was arrested for the Plame leak and jailed until she revealed her source, just recently. She got permission from her source, thankfully.
The media jumped on her, though, and justifiably. Even with permission, YOU DO NOT REVEAL YOUR SOURCE in a way which will compromise them.
Your name is Kunta Kinte, bitch. Not Toby. Have you no shame?
You don't fucking bow to the man because it's convenient. You stand tall for us all.
If they kill my family, if they take my arms, if they take my life, they will NOT force me to be anything other than what I am. Sitting in a jail cell is nothing. You violated the integrity of the entire writing world like a cheap whore for your hedonistic indulgence of a "freedom" you have now lessened.
Shame.
She said she would have stayed in prison longer. She should have. Every day she stayed in meant something. Now, on the outside, her days mean nothing. She wasted an opportunity for real change.
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I don't have any commentary on this, but the following is an article on the upcoming shortage of energy and how it will impact our lives. It is incredibly provocative, well written, and a piece of journalism that I enjoyed. I can rarely say that. Thanks to Felix for directing it my way.
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After reading this article, I will be buying the book. Here's the link:
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I'll let you know if it's any good. By the way, don't read "The World is Flat". Sucked. It's one giant defense of outsourcing and globalization. Or at least it seemed to be. After the hundred thousandth "flat" I stopped on page 150. Horrible book.
And after you've read that article about how SCREWED we are by everyone who doesn't conserve oil, and NOW, realize how big an ass this man who is going to the space station just for his own personal gratification is.
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More graft and corruption. In the wake of mismanagement of Hurricane Katrina we wasted over a hundred million dollars of ice.
A hundred million dollars is a fifty thousand dollar job a year before taxes for 2,000 people.
It just melted.
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Bush is "encouraged" that Iraq is better at taking care of itself, he says in his address. Problem is, that isn't true. The number of self-sufficient troops in Iraq that are from Iraq has dropped. Well, hey, doubleplusgood.
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And finally, most importantly, Paris Hilton is no longer engaged. That means someone, many someones, actually care whether or not Paris Hilton is engaged. People who will undoubtedly never read The Long Emergency or ponder hegemony (just participate in that "you go girl" money-is-all life).
Now I'm off to shoot myself. Later.
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