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ABRACADABRA

costin — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:28:08 GMT

is this a magic word ?

no shit !

I tell in you something better

go in an group of Americans and say : ANTISEMITIC

and all idiots and brain washed will run away

is more efficient then to say : "FIRE"

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jesus wants to be ugly

blissananda — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:40:48 GMT

united we sit
for freedom and shit.

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The economics of sex

feiruz_al-bnefsagia — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:32:16 GMT

Many times politicians find themselves caught in illegal or immoral sexual situations. Their choice to do such things makes their punishment appropriate, but the fact that such things ARE illegal or immoral is a problem in and of itself.

The time has come to stop viewing sex as bad, evil, criminal, abnormal and aberrant. Sexual pleasure is essential to the foundation of any society. The hypocrisy which seeks to control it by condemning it is outdated and it's time to cast off this silly preconceptions.

Everyone has sex. Everyone wants sex. Everyone needs sex.

Like all generalizations this one is universally true and situationally false. Presuming this may or may not be harmful, but for the last few thousand years we've been assuming the opposite which IS harmful.

We're not even talking about sex as reproduction. We're talking about the human need to touch and receive touch. Some cultures view sensuality as an element of spirituality--this too I am not talking about. I am just speaking of the basic physical and social need.

Setting aside sex and the irrational drive to perform sexual acts, lets consider another fact of life: eating. We in the US no longer eat to survive. We eat for pleasure, social interaction, comfort, and many other reasons--all of which also apply to sex. If eating gets out of hand it is a disorder, as is sex. But if one chooses to eat something different or to sample multiple types of dishes at one time, we don't lock them up, do we?

In an age where birth control is nearly ubiquitous, STD tests are accessible to most, paternity tests are quite accurate, condoms are damn cheap, women are the owners of their bodies, and sexual orientation is no longer seen as deviancy, why are we still so hard on the sex act itself?

Throughout the country family is being redefined as step, foster, and surrogate parents fight for rights as those who love and care for children. Genetic relation is far less important that emotional and social bonds--always has been.

If you LOVE someone, sex will NOT stop that love. If you trust someone, sex will not destroy that trust. However, if you are jealous, possessive, controlling, and medieval, you force both yourself and the one you love into a corner.

Imagine for a moment that prostitution was controlled, monitored, taxed, and a trade that required training and education--much like other types of labor. Just as one would object to an unskilled laborer building their house, no one would pay a street-corner hooker for sex. Just as women no longer need to cook dinner and allow their husbands to eat at a restaurant, so would they allow their men to visit health-code monitored brothels.

Most of the time sexual relationships consist of a exchange of goods and services, anyway. In today's era, not pleasing one's spouse is reason enough for divorce. So why not skip the divorce and let someone else do the hard work? You still keep your partner, friend, and parent of our children, but s/he goes elsewhere to get her nails, hair, and "O" taken care of.

Instead we waste millions of dollars in lawsuits, risk families and friends, ruin careers, and feed the media monster with the concerns of who did what with whoever else. We'd be far better of taking the time to study and understand the social reasons that people fail to be sexually monogamous.

If every sex worker--male and female--paid a tax towards health care, I bet there'd be enough dough to provide care for every child. Moreover, the culture would change to ensure there were no unwanted, unwelcome, or unloved children.

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Jesus, Diana, and Mother Theresa had DIARRHEA

pinworm — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:57:57 GMT

We like to think of our heroes as perfect. Perish the thought of anything that makes them human, because clearly they are not..they are special. Superhuman. This is why morons get pissed off when celebrities have political messages..we forget they are tax paying citizens who drink the water and take shits in the same sewers as we ignorant peon-serfs.

Speaking of taking shits, it only goes to follow that if they are human, they have human bodily functions. Belive it or not, Mother Theresa had a VAGINA...yeah, a gooey gravity-drain for her saintly discharge and feminine odor. You can demand she get sainthood all you want, her clit hood was there all the time. Yep. She had a clit too. And I would bet your mother's life that she played with it more than a few times. And remember that she needed vaginal odor spray just like the crack whore down the street from you. Oh yeah,and she probably had thousands of episodes of DIARRHEA too! What do you expect after being in all those filthy third world slums?

And not just Mother Theresa...Mother Mary, the Queen, the Queen Mum, Princess Died-ana, Nancy Regan, Jon Benet Ramsey..sure. All of them removed their pants and ejected hot cheesy liquishit into a toilet somewhere. The acrid stench of fetid colon filling the air immediately around them..foamy dead enzyme bile hosed from their oh so sacrosanct rosebuds in a vile puke of poopy sauce. Think about that the next time you see mother Mary in a pizza or an oil stain.

And not just women heroes. , men too. Perhaps even Jesus himself suffered a few ass-plosions. Do you suppose his diarrhea could heal the sick? If you drank it, would you piss wine and shit fishes? I am willing to bet there were disciples running around behind him beating the hell out of each other just to get a single corn kernel from his steaming pats of holy diarrhea. There are probably secret societies of templars and masons who have maps to pertrified jesus diarrheas that they belive will give them the power to control the minds of the US congress. Hell, they tried to steal the Beatles bowel movements too....yeah, I want to hold YOUR hand alright.

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The Sociology of Farts

pinworm — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:49:07 GMT

Fundamentally, Farts are the fucking funniest thing on earth. They make a funny sound, have a funny smell, and come from a funny place: a poo hole. Most of them that is..women have vaginal farts as well.

The great social thing about farts is that it reminds us that we all have assholes, even prim and proper white WASP women. Even your priest. Even your hot date. This causes social uncomfortability.

In a long term relationship you get to the point where you can fart at will without any embarrassment in front of the opposite sex. Nobody is sure when this happens, but after many years you forget who broke the fart-ice to start with. You might even play games with the farting, such as giving your spouse the "dutch oven" (farting under the covers and pulling the sheets up over their head to trap them with the smell) or making sure you fart just as they kiss you.

And you don't have to be in love for this kind of fart open-ness. Groups of good friends can develop their own fart dynamic when they spend enough time together. Yes, even groups of women friends.

But there is that mysterious social dynamic of farts that seems to be in a permanent grey area. Farts emitted among people who are mere aquaintences are terribly uncomfortable. Typically you are at work and speaking to a new boss or client, or perhaps a representative from another organization, perhaps a customer..or you are meeting your new neighbors, or something of that sort..you hear a fart and there is suddenly an elephant in the room...do you react? Do you ignore it and go on? Shit, did they notice me notice? What am I going to do if it smells? Maybe I should wait until someone ELSE says something! What? We are ignoring it? Okay.

It's hard for me, because I find farts totally hilarious, and when a fart is emitted in a situation where reacting to it would be inappropriate I have to swallow my laughter. I am sure I flush, get watery eyes, and tighten the muscles around my face in order to suppress a laugh.

Some people make a comment right away..."Must be barking spiders!"..this is a high risk/high reward tactic where it relives the tension and everyone laughs and can move on..OR it embarassess/angers the farter even more and a bad situation gets worse. I have seen it go both ways. You never know how people feel about farts. Most find them kind of amusing, but I have known a few who were repulsed and disgusted by them. A friend of mine has been with his girlfriend now for 5 years, and has NEVER heard her fart...she goes into the bathroom or somewhere else far away to do it, bring it up with her and she gets pissed off. You just never know.

Farts from strangers in close proximity are also uncomfortable. For some reason, if my friend rips a good loud one in front of me we all laugh. But if a total stranger were to rip the same fart, it is suddenly disgusting. I find no need to suppress laughter because farts from strangers are gross. And you cannot avoid them..you hear them in airplanes, elevators, waiting rooms, the mall, the check out line..you name it. Usually the social dynamic requires only the FARTER to comment on it..but honestly, only GRANDPA ever does. Usually you watch the stranger look around to see if anyone noticed or smelled it. My wife's Yoga class is apparently a hotbed of uncomfortable stranger farts and queefs.

Smells are great..they are the lingeing evidence long after the soundwave has left their asshole at mach 1. Smells give a fart true character, and can be more embarassing than the noise of the fart itself. Generally speaking, the louder a fart, the less stinky it will be, while the quieter the fart, the more stinky it will be...although there are enough exceptions to the rule out there. You can get away with a fart that nobody hears, but you can be caught by the smell.

Just last month I went to the supply closet at the office as I saw a woman coming out..strangely, with no supplies....I began idle chit chat with her but she had this weird vibe about her..I walked into the closet and knew exactly why..FART SMELL. She had gone in there to rip a stinker and had not expected anyone to walk in there. I couldn't help myself, it was instinctive..sniffed loudly in response while she stood there. Then I continued my idle chit chat but our eyes met and I knew she knew I knew she farted. Deep down in my perverted core this turned me on..she is a moderately attractive woman...this is what her asshole smells like..this is what is deep in her bowels right now..this is biological..mmmmmm I am such a perv!

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I am God.

GOD — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:41:55 GMT

I am here with you now.

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Support our Baby Killers

pinworm — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:31:46 GMT

The whole "support the troops" concept reflects the worst in blind nationalism and is an indication that the propaganda has sunk in...not necessarily the propaganda of this war or this administration, but the propaganda of many wars and many administrations over decades and decades.

A few basics here:

1 You cannot be against the war and FOR the soldiers in it, anymore than you can be against the mafia and FOR the hitmen and drug mules. This war is illegal, and therefore those who actually pull the triggers and actually kill the people in a country we invaded are just as guilty as those aristocrats at the top who looked at their bid free contract potentials and started convincing the public that we needed to attack Iraq. They DO have minds of their own, and they chose to do the dirty work of a dirty administration.

2: Just following orders is no excuse. Look at Nuremberg.

3: They are not "defending our freedom". This concept of a "war on terror" is an overgeneralized, blanket confusion tactic that links Iraq with 9/11 and probably Iran too. They had nothing to do with 9/11..those guys were Saudi, but they are still our friends and are still collecting your gas money to this day. Iraq was NO threat to our freedom. As a matter of fact, terrorism is no threat to our freedom UNLESS we start restricting civil liberties to fight it at home such as warrantless wiretaps, domestic spy satellites, National Security Letters that land you in jail if you speak of them, torture..oh, wait. The only way to defend freedom is to do it like a true American....vote and protest and vote and protest and revolt if the first two don't work. The soldiers are NOT serving the country, they are serving the feudal lords and their pocket books.

4: Refrences to other wars designed to cannonize the current crop of soldiers, especially to ww2 are misleading. Different war, different government, different generation, different world. The two are unrelated. Honor those guys if you want, but piss in the faces of our current cowardly thugs.

5: Soldiering is a surrender of freedom, both literally and intellectually, to the ruling class of the state and cannot be respected in and of itself be it in peace or in war. Those who join are highly propagandized and of a lower intellect and class than those who influence policy and pull the strings of the political economic state. They are those promised meager jobs who are attracted by the possibility of obtaining rote technical skills in the hope of getting a lower middle class job at the end. They risk their life for it, and are usually screwed hard by the VA afterwards, and they usually discover that employers want university educated folks, not cholos who know how to repair radar and drive a humvee but cannot spell. Not only in America, not only in this century or millenium, but always always always have soldiers been used as cannon fodder by those born into wealth and power. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me...I feel sorry for but cannot support an entire class of fools who fly like moths into the flame and feed the fire.

6: Despite the heroism pap surrounding images of soldiers on your local news, most of them are hicks and do terrible things in war for amusement such as firing willy nilly into civilian areas, raping locals, burning villages, taking potshots at civilians..part of it is the militarization of their minds in boot camp, the euphemisation of what they do (killing a person becomes "taking out" etc), and part of it is the ugliness of basic human nature. It makes them feel superior to whomever they are invading to the extent that they can dehumanize them.

Fuck them.

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Weigh in... your opinion, that is

feiruz_al-bnefsagia — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:55:59 GMT

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Fuck Woodstock...

Frozenstars — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:48:55 GMT

Already, I'm starting to hear the ad nauseam of the Woodstock 40th Anniversary. What better example of a Hedonistic Nihilism of the Baby Booms generation.

It was the perfect stage to launch their debt mongering indifference to both past and present generations. To pay little or nothing for a good time and leave the mess for others to shoulders the burden...

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if you cover an Arab with yamaca........

costin — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:50:08 GMT

he look jewish !

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Medical Whistleblowers Duesberg and Faber…

I-Thought-You-Knew — Wed, 21 May 2008 23:33:36 GMT

…receives “Semmelweis Clean Hands Award”

“……..May 13 Tuesday, Peter Duesberg of the University of Berkeley, and Celia Farber, freelance contributor to Harpers and other magazines, [were] will be among twenty people honored at the Library of Congress by the Semmelweis Society for their achievements in blowing the whistle on bad behavior in science and medicine…..”
http://www.scienceguardian.com/blog/whistleblower-awards-in-washington-for-duesberg-and-farber.htm#comment-5884

A streaming audio with Celia Farber. Click blue square ‘play’ to listen:
Part 1: http://www.podnova.com/channel/166885/episode/21/
Part 2: http://www.podnova.com/channel/166885/episode/20/

In this June 08 issue of ‘Discover’ magazine, Peter Duesberg is interviewed:
http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jun/15-aids-dissident-seeks-redemption-and-a-cure-for-cancer

A streaming audio on the Robert Scott Bell show, with Duesberg. Click blue square ‘play’ to listen:
http://www.podnova.com/channel/166885/episode/74/

Semmelweis Society International
http://semmelweis.org/

Thanks for reading, and listening.

T.

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He apologizes over shooting book but never shooting people!

Druben — Tue, 20 May 2008 23:55:57 GMT

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080520/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_quran_shooting

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Anyone else tired of Indiana Jones???

pinworm — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:50:02 GMT

I was never a fan of these movies..they are contrived and excessive, but shit that is most of American film anyhow. We are used to that.

But holy fucking jesus cuntwhore shit! This new Indiana Jones movie has taken promotion saturation to an entirely new level. I have not seen a movie pumped this hard with cross promotion since 1989's "Batman".

The movie is not even out yet, but I defy you to try and not hear about it. TV stations have been running the older movies all week. The "History Channel" (Hearst Publishing's cable propaganda outlet) has made documentaries about "the real crystal skull" in a backdoor promotion of the movie. This morning, "Good Morning America" had changed their logo to the Indiana Jones font and was interviewing the freaking HAIRDRESSER from the movie.

I went to buy booze yesterday at the Supermarket and passed an endcap that was merchandising Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull Lego Sets.

NPR had a story on the movie. National Public Radio...oh well, at least they aren't collectively masturbating to "Juno" anymore.

My God, we need to clean up the mental landscape of our culture. Fucking Spielberg should be up against the wall first when the revolution comes.

Movies have WAYYYY to much import in our culture. Like sports, they are inconsequential distractions..and while many defend them as harmless and necessary entertainment, and while I have no problem with entertainment itself, there is entirely too much of it. There is a difference between watching a movie every so often and knowing the minutae of Star Wars while being ignorant of the workings of the national food supply, or how a bill becomes a law, or other important things.

Each bit of information our brain takes in has our resources dedicated to it, and some of that information, regardless of it's importance, remains permanently in memory. If your life is wasted on mass produced consumer products like television and movies, your life is not really your own and you will never get those brain cells back. Too much of my life memory is wasted with images of Gilligans Island or Battle of the Network stars, and not enough creative personal output. Not enough Gadamer or Hegel, not enough quiet contemplation.

The noise is everywhere.

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Let's isolate the religious nuts

The Intellectual — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:16:49 GMT

I grew up in this part of Florida, the sad thing it is the rule not the exception:

http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=79533

So I have to say, they want to leap headlong back into the dark ages? Fine, but we should do it properly. Round up all the creationists and likeminded religious flakes, wall off Florida and make sure they have NOTHING that is not mentioned in the bible. No electricity, no phones, no lights no motors cars... as primitive as can be. I'm tired of them trying to have it both ways though one good cholera epidemic might do the lot of them in. Florida would be a great spot to do it since most of them live there already.

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Beauty comes in all sizes

feiruz_al-bnefsagia — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:40:15 GMT

Freud's large nude sets art world record

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/05/14/freud.record/index.html

LONDON, England (CNN) -- A picture of an overweight woman lying naked on a couch, painted by the British artist Lucian Freud, set a record Tuesday night for the most money paid for any work by a living artist.\

The 1995 life-size painting -- "Benefits Supervisor Sleeping" -- fetched $33.6 million during bidding at Christie's auction house in New York. The previous record was for "Hanging Heart," a painting by Jeff Koons that sold for $23.5 million, said Rik Pike, a spokesman for Christie's.

Freud's painting depicts Sue Tilley, a manager of a government-run job center in London, lying on her side on a worn-out couch with nothing to hide her folds of flesh.

Christie's calls it a "bold and imposing example of the stark power of Lucian Freud's realism," depicting "the forceful and undeniable physical presence of people and things."

Tilley, now 51, told CNN she was initially embarrassed to pose naked for the artist but soon grew comfortable in the studio -- so comfortable, in fact, that she confessed to falling asleep while posing.

"I didn't mind if he noticed," she said.

The painting challenges modern notions of beauty and elicits a reaction from everyone who sees it. That may have been precisely the aim of Freud, who told London's Tate Gallery in 2002 that he wanted his paintings to "astonish, disturb, seduce, convince."

Though some regard the painting as shocking -- ugly, even -- that is also the appeal for collectors, said Michael Hall, editor of Apollo Magazine in London.

"There's a reaction against art that's regarded as too pretty," he said.

Hall said a more conventionally beautiful painting would not be able to fetch such a large amount.

"It's the sort of thing that everyone immediately wants to voice an opinion about," he said of the painting. "It challenges conventional taste ... and people do find that rather exciting and interesting to talk about."

Collectors may also view this as a rare chance to buy something by a prolific artist painted at the peak of his work, he said.

Freud, 85, has been described as Britain's greatest living realist painter. He is the grandson of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and came to London from Germany when he was a child.

With Tilley, Freud said he was "very aware of all kinds of spectacular things to do with her size, like amazing craters and things one's never seen before," according to the 2002 interview with the Tate. He added: "I have perhaps a predilection towards people of unusual or strange proportions, which I don't want to over-indulge."

Freud painted the portrait of Tilley over nine months in 1995. Tilley said she posed for eight hours a day, two or three days a week.

Tilley said Freud initially paid her £20 ($31) a day for posing, and the fee later went up to £33 ($51) a day.

She had been introduced to the artist through a mutual friend, Australian performance artist Leigh Bowery, who also posed for Freud. It was Bowery's idea for Tilley to work with Freud, so he arranged a meeting.

Tilley knew the meeting was more of an interview for the job of Freud's muse, and she didn't find out until later -- through Bowery -- that she'd gotten the job, she said.

"Lucian just said to Leigh, 'Oh, tell Sue she can start next week," Tilley said.

Tilley still works full-time at the job center in London's West End and calls her new-found fame "a bit bizarre." She laughs as she describes how she now has to arrange her schedule to accommodate media interviews.

She said she was excited to find out how much the painting sold for, but knowing it could set a record was "a bit scary."

"It's hard to put your head around it, really," she said. "But it's all good."

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Rock 'n Roll 'Tards

pinworm — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:52:08 GMT

Have you ever noticed that retards...as in those with Down Syndrome...try to appear to be fonzie-like "cool"? Are they trying to attract members of the opposite sex who have one less chromosome?

You have probably seen at least one of these tards in your life...you know, he's wearing wrap around sunglasses with tiger print parachute pants and a faux leather jacket...or trying to convince you he is in a band or something.

Of course, being totally RETARDED he lacks nuance and seems contrived in his efforts to normalize himself.

No matter how rock 'n roll his sunglasses, jacket and acid wash pleated pants are, they cannot unpuff his face or up his brains. They cannot shrink his club-like hands or make his tiny chiclet teeth larger. They will not change the fact that he is a 35 year old child with pubic hair.

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FUCK Star Wars

pinworm — Mon, 05 May 2008 06:18:55 GMT

In 1977 when I was 8 years old, my father took me to see Star Wars. Sure, I was blown away by all the special effects which were indeed ahead of their time..at the time. And I was a kid, easily amused because my previous trips to movie theaters were all for cartoon films. I even played with the toys as a kid because I was too stupid to see the inherent propaganda of action figures and good guy/bad guy dualism that the military industrial complex portrays as a picture of the world at large. I am grateful that it did not stick!

But for fucks sakes, Star Wars really really sucks. Come on...it's trite, idiotically simplistic, and a reworked version of Camelot. What the fuck is with starting at part 4??? It's fundamentally a judeo-christian morality play and like most hollywood movies before and after it, portrays a single narrative: Morally pure hero, conflict, love intrest, resolution, good guy wins battle and girl....America wins again.

And the movie made very little sense..ships don't make noise in space, english is probably not the language of an ENTIRE distant galaxy that existed PRIOR to england etc. I know it sounds nit picky, but these things are not required for a good sci-fi...take "2001 A Space Odessy" for example. Lucas was capable of SO much more, as demonstrated with the visual and auditory brilliance of the pre-Star Wars sci-fi "THX 1138"

If you can imagine it getting worse, it does. The Empire Strikes Back was next but by this time the billions were lined up for the cross promotion with McDonalds and Kenner because THEY made more money than the movies themselves so the movie was a commercial for the toys..and a bad one at that. This time around we see old Mark Hamill who couldn't rise to the level of a moderate good actor DESPITE the amazing success of the first movie, a drugged out Carrie Fisher and a fucking muppet who speaks english with german grammatical patterns. Same narrative except for the good guys overtly winning, but they kind of do..they at least get away from the clutches of the empire.

Return of The Jedi was the nail in the coffin that is the life of dogshit that was the early Star Wars franchise. Now it was outright shamelessly built around the kid toy factor with the creation of nauseatingly cute furry creatures called Ewoks and jungle party finales with shitty music. I was 13 in 1983 and I felt the movie was a kid's movie. Carrie Fisher is now so fucked up on the smack that she cannot hold her head up to deliver her lines. This was all shortly follwed by a saturday morning cartoon and a made for tv movie featuring kids who shack up with ewoks.

I won't even talk about the prequels. What's the point? Jar Jar Binks..'nuff said.

But if there is one group of people who need to be Auschwitized, it's the Star Wars nerds..the ones who are SO into the franchise that they almost belive it's real. It is so shamefully foolish to worship A MOVIE, and yes fuckers, IT IS JUST A MOVIE AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN. You might associate or confuse it with nostalgia for your childhood, but that's because you are an idiot who defined their childhood through promotional toys and distracting hollywood entertainment. If you go to conventions dressed up like a Star Wars character, you deserve to be shot when the REAL Rebellion starts..up against the wall first.

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Daniel J — Mon, 05 May 2008 09:44:59 GMT

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the jewish are smarter

costin — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:50:00 GMT

...then everybody alls

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Misunderstanding Karma

pinworm — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:16:10 GMT

It's common for the "Barnes and Noble Intelligensia" to use the term "karma" to describe justice..and since a popular television show called "My Name Is Earl" has contributed to the western misunderstanding of the concept of karma, the fallacy has become wide spread.

In the post-modern era, Karma has attracted the mish-mash religious types..you know, those types who are just non-conformist enough to reject the big 3 religions but not so non-conformist that are capable of rejecting religion altogether..they like to call themselves "spiritual" but they are really just mistaking what is exotic with what is compelling. They like eastern religion, but usually don't spend enough time investigating it before running out to Barnes and Noble to snatch up the lastest book on Taoist Tea Ceremonies.

As these fuckers understand it, Karma is a kind of providential justice. It works like this...you do something bad, then bad things will happen to you. You do something good, then good things will happen to you. There is a providence running the universe that recognizes and rewards/punishes various actions based on their moral values..and ironically those moral factors tend to be judeo christian in nature as a result of the western worlds religious history. I personally feel that this comes out our media structure too..after all, after decades of sitcoms and movies in which the good guy MUST win and the bad guy MUST be punished or the audience freaks out, people start to belive this karma shit IS true.

Unfortuneatly, this is not "Karma" at all.

Karma is a Hindu concept tied in with their belief in re-incarnation. Karma is not the rewarding of good acts with goodness or bad acts with badness...rather, it is a currency that one accumulates in the current life and all lives after it..it is reviewed AFTER death in determining what the next life will be..up a level in caste or down a level in caste... Funnily enough, the best Karma is supposed to come from being devoutly religious and praying to the right gods, not necessarily helping little old ladies across the street..most of it is about adherence to Hindu practice.

So helping a little old lady across the street and finding 20 bucks later is not "Karma"..they are unrelated acts. As we all know, the "good" get bad things happen to them and the "bad" have good things happen to them quite frequently.

We have to stop butchering far off religious concepts and stop applying our entertainment narratives of justice onto the real world.

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Does any one else hate Michael Moore?

Druben — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:12:17 GMT

Sicko made me want to vomit. His propagandizing and self-righteousness (I give $12,000 to my enemy anonymously, except that I have put it into this film) and his over simplification of happy, happy Euopeans and Cubans and miserable Americans really irked me. But of course I couldn't say anything about his lack of rigor or manipulation with music and tender images and isolated incidences which are suppose to them eb generalizd (a very poor form of argument and investigation) with out being attacked by my liberal friends who thought I was anit universal health care. Listen, after going through Katrina, the government is the LAST organization I want setting up my health care.

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Since One talked about what America calls 9/11 in May of 1999

Aussie — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:24:41 GMT

Does this not mean: "God love me" a wee bit more than Ms Wendy, and other sanctimonious Christians whom think they are already going to heaven???

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Yet another Rant Against Southwest Airlines

pinworm — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:55:17 GMT

It comes down to this...a discount airline means discount PEOPLE.

Call me an elitist snot if you must. I am as pro-proletariat as they come...except when it comes to my comfort during travel. I like the peons provided I don't have to be near them.

I fly pretty frequently for work..at least once a month out of Phoenix. I almost always fly USairways or a regular airline, but sometimes I don't have a choice..usually when I have to go with co-workers who love Southwest.

Here are some analogies: if a regular airline (American, Continental) is a Macy's, USairways is a Stein Mart, Southwest is a Ross Dress For Less. If a regular airline is a Gelson's, USAirways is a Trader Joes, Southwest is a Food For Less. If a regular airline is a BMW 7, USAirways is a Toyota Camry, Southwest is a 1988 Dodge Caravan.

People think Southwest Airlines is the cheapest, so most people automatically book a ticket without shopping around. This is good for me..because the truth is that Southwest is NOT always the cheapest. Sometimes USairways is, but even when it is not the price differance is usually not more than 20 or 30 bucks...a small price to pay for the convienience of NOT flying Southwest.

It's not just the flight, it's the process. Southwest uses open seating. With Southwest you have to check in online 24 hours beforehand to get an "A" ticket and then line up like a retard, even with their new system. This is a major pain in the ass. There is still weird tension at the gate as people jockey for their place in line..not that it really matters..southwest cycles their aircraft so much that unless you are getting onto the first flight of the day, the plane will be half full when you get on even if you are A1 and you KNOW they will not even clean the damn toilets between flights.

Because of the mass appeal of Southwest to the poor, the terminal servicing that airline is always a mad house, the security lines are always longer, the pain of big crowds pervades everything in the terminal...store lines, toilet lines, pick up and drop off vehicle lines outside the terminal, traffic around the terminal...and because it appeals to a lower class of riff raff, there are many around the terminal who have never flown or fly very infrequently and have no idea how to behave or what to do....these ignorant drones cut into line, try to bring their knife collection through security, wolf down 4 Whoppers and 6 Big Glups just before boarding, scream during turbulence, change their babies shitty diapers right in the seat beside you and make sure they are nice and drunk before the flight. I do love hearing them get crabby with each other at the other end of the flight..they cannot handle the stresses of airtravel.

When I fly any airline OTHER than Southworst, I get to enter a quiet terminal with shorter lines and fewer children. I get to sit down right until I board and take my pre assigned seat, I get to hang around people who can get somewhere for more than 150 dollars without breaking the bank. These people smell better and usually know what they are doing.

Southwest maximizes capacity. The plane is usually full and over booked at that. I hate having to sit beside Joe Mullet as his burger king breath stinks up the place while he prays to Jebus on takeoff. Other airlines offer a greater chance of having nobody beside you and the ability to stretch out. If you DO get someone in the seat next to you, chances are it isn't Nascar Dad or recovering junkie going home to mama.

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RIP Gary Gygax, Co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons (X-posted)

feiruz_al-bnefsagia — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:42:19 GMT

If it weren't for the creative guys at Tactical Studies Rules (TSR) I doubt we'd have the extensive fantasy- and mythology-based literature and games which are so popular and financially successful today.

Rest well, Gary.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Gygax

Feiruz, a second-generation "gamer"

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Thing you just love about your job; not.....

Aussie — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:05:44 GMT

Well other than having to touch vagina's, and look, at them, and deal with them. I to have to look at other peoples Poo, shit, scat, movements. Then go and grad them. T 1, T2, T 3, T4 this is a healthy one. Size, sloppy, and such. I just love having to have a look, to see what they have done. Something the can make the best of them, els water.

So what joys in your job, do you have to deal with. I love to share this a dinner, if there is a few suits about....

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Fuck Egg Farts!

pinworm — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:18:30 GMT

Egg farts.

Of all the cunting kike fucking stinks that eminate from my body, egg farts are the most vile..worse than cigar smoker cum, worse than black coffee drinker piss, and even worse than the dreaded smoker's tonsil stones coughed out in a putrid ball every few years.

Egg farts smell like eggs...and I don't even really eat fucking eggs..know why? They are CHICKEN MENSIES!! That's why! Yep, a chicken period in a hard shell. Now, you may belong to the marischino club, but I tell you what..if some twat expelled a clot in my mouth while I was eating out her piss gutter, I would puke on her whorey flesh in an instant. So why would I eat CHICKEN PERIOD?

Anyhow, egg farts. Yeah. Egg farts. I don't eat eggs, but I sometimes get the hot, sharty egg farts. I suppose you don't even need to eat eggs to have them. You only need to eat something sulfurous and you can egg fart until you are blue in the face and brown in the undies.

Sometimes, when I get into one of my autocannibalistic moods, I get into the bath and egg fart in the water..then bite at the bubbles. If I am fast I can catch them, and it's like eating a greasy-yet-fluffy omlette. It's quite a sight, I can tell you. Egg farts are my specialty.

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the must popular in "unpopular"

costin — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:59:03 GMT

majority of Pinworm topics start with "FUCK"

but we still like Pinworm

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Has America been good, for the rest of the world?

Aussie — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:50:16 GMT

Other than World War[s] I & II. One would have to say NO!

Oz had, & still dose have a culture of it's own, but............... This is being eroded with Americanism. America has given us fast food outlets that now pollute our highways, and are turning us into an obese nation, like the USA.

It has given us evangelism, Mormonism, as well a many other cults, that do noting but rape souls, take your cash. As well are so fare right, they are wrong, most of the time, and poison everything.

America, also gave us Vietnam. As well other wars to help them fight. But..... would rather have em as an Allie.

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Court Finds That Trolls Can Remain Anonymous

feiruz_al-bnefsagia — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:55:11 GMT

From TechCrunch: www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/...nonymous/

A California court has found that trolls are protected by the first amendment and are entitled to anonymity. The ruling comes despite previous cases where trolls have been arrested (be it once they have been disclosed) and hearings in other courts.

The court reversed a previous decision that would have allowed Lisa Krinsky, COO of a Florida based drug service SFBC, to subpoena 10 anonymous Yahoo message board trolls, according to Ars Technica.

The 10 trolls posted on Yahoo message boards in 2005 with “scathing verbal attacks” including referring to the management team of SFBC as “a management consisting of boobs, losers and crooks,” and responding to Krinsky with comments such as “I will reciprocate felatoin with Lisa even though she has fat thighs, a fake medical degree, ‘queefs’ and has poor feminine hygiene.”

The court found that although the Internet is still bound by rules about libel, what was posted were not assertions of “actual fact” and not actionable under defamation law, therefore protected under the First Amendment, in sort of the same way parody is.

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Tell me how to eat you out

pinworm — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:36:56 GMT

I am interested in hearing from women here...what makes the difference between BAD cunnilingus and GOOD cunnilingus?

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Ok, lets talk about vagina's..

Aussie — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:51:54 GMT

One gets to see them every day, one goes to work. I think they are ugly, and just don't see why guys go so gaga, just at the thought, they may get to play in one. The power these things have over so many men. How they go mad over a pee pee, that's snapping... One gets more please over a jar of muscles, after all, they look the same. yet want cost you as much.

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"We are all one" gag me!

Druben — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:06:23 GMT

I'm sorry, but I have had my fill of this platitude which to me is merely another pretty story created in the new age community with the hopes that if we tell ourselves a falsehood, then it will become real as soon as enough people believe it. There is a strong dominating force in phrases such as this - It implys that you, or whoever, is speaking for me. You are making claims by saying "we." If I don't feel that we are all one then please leave me out of your "all' - fairly you can then say, "We are all One, except for David," and then when other people speak up and say, "you know, I don't feel that I am part of the one to which you are attributing me," then the only fair statement can be: "We are all one except for David, and Betty and Helen, and Joe." Then as more people come out of the wood work and question this new age platitude the list grows and so fairly, all those people who are not comfortable being part of the supposed oneness then form enough counter examples that it becomes a meaningless phrase, which is where it belongs.

Sure people can say, "Gosh, I feel that I am one with all things and the universe." People can make claims about their own reality all they want but don't appropriate my reality into your statement. This is domination. Emmanuel Levinas is my favorite ethicist because he insists that we are stop our tendency to always make the Other conform to our wishes and fantasies and models of reality and that the truly most non-oppressive stance is a radical respect for the otherness of the Other, so that I refrain from including them in my ALL. I let them have the freedom of self-definition and self-determination. Much of what I read in liberal and new age materials make unwarranted assumptions on the ALL and force paradigms like "we are all one" on to everyone - this is as disrepectful as any evangelical right winger.

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Che was a horrible person

Sleepingattheconsole — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 01:17:08 GMT

I Fucking Hate Che Guevara!!! If you don't, please explain why.

"The A&E Network recently produced a Biography show on Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Years back they produced one on Senator "Tail-Gunner Joe" McCarthy. The depictions contrast sharply.

The second mentioned of these historical figures was a freely-elected official who campaigned to remove Stalinist agents that had infiltrated the government of a representative republic. Joe McCarthy launched his congressional inquiry into Communist penetration of the U.S. government at a time when Stalin's regime had already murdered more people, conquered more nations, and enslaved more of their citizens than Hitler's regime had managed at its murderous apex. On top of this, Stalin's regime had recently developed the Atomic bomb.

In 1950 Senator Mc Carthy claimed to know of 57 Stalinist agents in the employ of the U.S. government. Even with this immense totalitarian threat as a backdrop, not a single one of these alleged agents suffered so much as a day in jail, though some lost their cushy government jobs.

Ernesto "Che" Guevara was second in command, chief executioner, and chief KGB liaison for a regime that outlawed elections and private property. This regime's KGB-supervised police -- employing the midnight knock and the dawn raid among other devices -- rounded up and jailed more political prisoners as a percentage of population than Stalin's and executed more people (out of a population of 6.4 million) in its first three years in power than Hitler's executed (out of a population of 70 million) in its first six.

Can you guess which show The History Channel titled, "Epidemic of Fear"?

The regime Che Guevara co-founded stole the savings and property of 6.4 million citizens, made refugees of 20 per cent of the population from a nation formerly deluged with immigrants and whose citizens had achieved a higher standard of living than those residing in half of Europe. Che Guevara's regime also shattered -- through executions, jailings, mass larceny and exile -- virtually every family on the island of Cuba. Many opponents of the Cuban regime qualify as the longest-suffering political prisoners in modern history, having suffered prison camps, forced labor and torture chambers for a period THREE TIMES as long in Che Guevara's Gulag as Alexander Solzhenytzin suffered in Stalin's Gulag.

Can you guess which A & E show mentioned, "hundreds of destroyed lives"?

One week into power the regime Che Guevara co-founded abolished Habeas Corpus. Guevara commanded his regime's prosecutorial goons to "always interrogate our prisoners at night. A man's resistance is always lower at night." He boasted that, "we execute from revolutionary conviction!" and that "judicial evidence is an archaic bourgeois detail." Edwin Tetlow, Havana correspondent for London's Daily Telegraph, reported on a mass "trial" orchestrated by Che Guevara where Tetlow noticed the death sentences posted on a board before the trial had started.

Can you guess which show had "The Great Inquisitor" in the title?

In case you haven't guessed, the answer to all of the above questions is: Joe McCarthy's.

One signed his name "Stalin II," professed that "the solutions to the world's problems lie behind the Iron curtain," and boasted that "if the nuclear missiles had remained we would have fired them against the heart of the U.S. including New York City." He also professed that the victory of socialism was well worth "millions of atomic victims."

Can you guess which show mentioned,"his idealism will rarely be equaled"?

Immediately upon entering Havana, Che Guevara stole and moved into what was probably the most luxurious mansion in Cuba. The rightful owner fled the country barely ahead of a firing squad and a reporter who wrote of Che's new house in a Cuban newspaper was himself threatened with the firing squad. A year later thousands of Cubans were sent to forced-labor camps on Che's orders, based on his whim to fashion "a new man."

Can you guess which show includes the phrase "he never abused his power"?

During a 1961 speech in Cuba, Che Guevara denounced the very "spirit of rebellion" as "reprehensible." Earlier he had cheered the Soviet invasion of Hungary and the concurrent slaughter of thousands of Hungarians who resisted Russian Imperialism. According to Guevara, these freedom-fighters were all "fascists and CIA agents."

Can you guess which show described its subject as: "a potent symbol of rebellion, liberation and resistance to imperialism"?

In case you haven't guessed, the answer to the above questions is: Che Guevara's.

On penultimate day alive, Che Guevara ordered his guerrilla charges to give no quarter, to fight to the last breath and to the last bullet. With his men doing just that, a slightly wounded Che snuck away from the firefight and surrendered with a full clip in his pistol, while whimpering to his captors: "Don't Shoot! I'm Che! I'm worth more to you alive than dead!" He then groveled shamelessly, desperate to ingratiate himself. "What's your name, young man?" Che asked one of his captors."Why what a lovely name for a Bolivian soldier!"

"So what will they do with me?" Che asked Bolivian Captain Gary Prado. "I don't suppose you will kill me. I'm surely more valuable alive....And you Captain Prado," Che commended his captor. "You are a very special person ...I have been talking to some of your men. They think very highly of you, captain! And don't worry, this whole thing is over. We have failed." Then to further ingratiate himself, "your army has pursued us very tenaciously....now, could you please find out what they plan to do with me?"

Nonetheless, The History Channel gushes that Guevara "was valiant until his last moment alive."

So far, subjective matters. Now on to more objective ones.

Despite numerous attempts nobody has managed to locate any record of Ernesto Guevara's medical degree. Shortly after his capture, Che admitted to his captor's commander, Captain Gary Prado, that he (Che) was not a doctor, but "had some knowledge of medicine."

Nonetheless, The History Channel refers to Ernesto Guevara as a "newly-qualified Doctor."

It is a matter of historical record that in January 1959 the U.S. gave diplomatic recognition to the Castro/Che regime MORE QUICKLY than they had recognized Batista's in 1952. State Department records also show that the U.S. imposed on arms embargo on the Batista government and refused to ship arms the Cuban government had already paid for. The official record also documents that U.S. ambassador Earl T. Smith personally notified Batista that he had no support from the U.S. government, which strongly recommended that he leave Cuba. Batista was then denied political asylum in the U.S.

In 2001 while visiting Havana for a Conference with Fidel Castro, the CIA's "Caribbean Desk's "specialist on the Cuban Revolution" from 1957-1960, Robert Reynolds boasted that: "Me and my staff were all Fidelistas."

"Everyone in the CIA and everyone at State were pro-Castro, except ambassador Earl Smith." This statement is from former CIA operative in Santiago Cuba, Robert Weicha.

Nonetheless, The History Channel reports that "Che Guevara helped overthrow the U.S.-BACKED Cuban dictator, Fulgencio Batista."

"At his (Che's) orders around 50 men were executed," asserts The History Channel

The Black Book of Communism, written by French scholars and published in English by Harvard University Press (neither an outpost of the vast right-wing conspiracy, much less of "Miami maniacs!") estimates 14,000 firing squad executions in Cuba by the end of the 1960's. "The facts and figures are irrefutable," wrote the New York Times (no less!) about The Black Book of Communism. A Cuban prosecutor of the time who quickly defected in horror and disgust named Jose Vilasuso estimates that Che signed 400 death warrants the first few months of his command in La Cabana. A Basque priest named Iaki de Aspiazu, who was often on hand to perform confessions and last rites, says Che personally ordered 700 executions by firing squad during the period. Cuban journalist Luis Ortega, who knew Che as early as 1954, writes in his book "Yo Soy El Che!" that Guevara sent 1,892 men to the firing squad.

In his book, Che Guevara: A Biography, Daniel James writes that Che himself admitted to ordering "several thousand" executions during the first year of the Castro regime. Felix Rodriguez, the Cuban-American CIA operative who helped track him down in Bolivia and was the last person to question him, says that Che during his final talk, admitted to "a couple thousand" executions. But he shrugged them off as all being of "imperialist spies and CIA agents."

Historically speaking, documenting regime murders while that murderous regime remains in power has proven almost impossible. Yet the Cuba Archive project headed by Maria Werlau and Dr Armando Lago have already documented 216 firing squad death warrants signed by Che Guevara, a figure quadrupling The History Channel's. What can possibly account for such a relentless contempt for the truth by The History Channel?

We'll see in a minute.

"He studied the evidence in each case (of the "50" executions) with methodical care. The executed were all torturers and murderers of women and children," asserts The History Channel in its Che biography.

Well, Guevara's judicial methods I've already mentioned, simply by quoting Che Guevara himself. If "judicial evidence is an archaic bourgeois detail" if no defense counsel or witnesses are permitted then just how did Che determine who is "a torturer and murderer of women and children?" The History Channel provides no clue.

But their main source, Che biographer Jon Lee Anderson who is interviewed and quoted extensively through the "documentary" does. This diligent historian got the figure of 50 executed and the accounts of the sterling judicial procedures preceding the executions, from one of the Communist prosecutors himself, Orlando Borrego, who features as major source in Anderson's book and who is a minister in Cuba's Stalinist government to this day. Indeed, Anderson wrote his book while living in Cuba using ministers of a Stalinist government as his primary sources. Other sources such as "Che's Diaries" were edited and published by Castro's propaganda ministry with the preface written by Fidel Castro himself. Given the subject, perhaps such a thoroughly "revolutionary" form of historiography is fitting. Let's step back for a second and contemplate it.

Adolph Eichmann, Rudolf Hess, Karl Donitz, Baldur von Schirach and many other Nazi officials were still alive when William Shirer wrote The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Yet these were not Shirer's primary sources. Therefore, applying contemporary logic as it applies to Cuban history, Shirer's book should be thoroughly discredited. Anything and everything former Nazi officials had to say should have been taken at face value. Instead Shirer relied on sources such as German exile Fritz Thyssen. This man was "embittered", had an obvious "ax to grind" against the Nazi regime, and should have been discounted as biased and not credible by William Shirer and by all right-thinking people.

Robert Conquest was also derelict in using Ukrainian refugees such as Marco Carynnyk as sources for his book, The Great Terror. From Leonid Brezhnev to Yuri Andropov to Nikita Khrushchev, thousands of Stalin's henchmen were available to Conquest as perfectly reliable sources. For not relying upon them exclusively in his studies of Stalinism, Robert Conquest should be laughed off any lectern. His book consists of nothing but embittered ravings and cheap gossip from people with "an ax to grind."

Simon Weisenthal, Eilie Weisel and Ann Frank all had obvious "axes to grind" against the Nazi regime so nothing they said or wrote should be taken seriously. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Cardinal Mindszenty, Nathan Scharansky, Vladimir Bukovsky, etc. are all "embittered exiles and cranks" with obvious "axes to grind" against the Soviet regime. So the same applies to them.

The above may sound flippant, but it's precisely the methodology applied in media and "scholarly" circles when it comes to studying Cuban totalitarianism. The normal rules of historiography -- and even of decency, logic and common sense -- get turned on their heads, resulting in shows like those on The History Channel."

Humberto Fontova is the author of Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant, a Conservative Book Club "Main Selection."

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WTC 7 was brought down by laser beams from space

deepfog — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:49:59 GMT

what do you think?

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infection

costin — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:13:01 GMT

we are infected ?

http://www.cdc.gov/NCIDOD/DPD/parasites/pinworm/factsht_pinworm.htm

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Mmmmmm. Tasty

Paynie — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:59:11 GMT

If god didn't want us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them out of meat.

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I am the new Moderator, here are the rules

pinworm — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:45:36 GMT

Pretty simple really.

1: No personal r/t information about other members such as real names, addresses or phone numbers. Such posts will be deleted.

2: No child pornography as defined by the United States supreme court in 2002.

3: No commercial solicitation.

As it is the "unpopular opinions" tribe, material deemed offensive by any members as a group or as an individual will stay. It doesn't matter what your political leanings are, and personal insults are okay..we are all grown ups here. The more unpopular the better.

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FUCK Patronizing Statements

pinworm — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:54:54 GMT

Nothing drives me up the wall faster than a peon presuming to foist their ignorant wisdom upon me.

When I tell people I am childless by choice, I get "You will change your mind someday."....as if it is a GIVEN that everyone has to have kids. News flash, biologists and doctors say there is no biological clock save for the one that makes you sleepy at night and awake in the day. It's a cultural myth that we all want to reproduce at a certain age as part of a biological imperative. The imperative is satisfied in the mere act of having sex or masturbating. It is cultural pressure that makes people follow timelines for reproduction.

Furthermore, don't presume to tell me about my mind and that I will change it.

Another one on the same subject is "It will just happen"...yeah, this is how the white trash rubes and others breed. They get drunk, fuck, and forget the condom. It doesn't just happen in an age of effective birthcontrol and the vasectomy. Just because it "accidentally" happened to you doesn't mean it happens to everyone.

Athiesm. I get alot of patronizing lines from superstitious idiots about this one...let's start with
"there are no athiests in foxholes"...firstly, there is no way to objectively determine the truth of this statement. There might well be atheiests in foxholes. Secondly, the patronizing aspect of this is that people in really mortal situations will naturally turn to a diety. This implies that athiesm is just some conveinient opinion that will collapse under pressure. It is not. It is a fundamental outlook and applies to all situations. I nearly died about 9 years ago...I had strep A that moved to my kidneys and had to go on dialysis for 2 weeks. I FELT like I was dying. I could actually feel the biological process of living struggling. Not once did I lose my athiesm or beg some ghost to save my life.

When I say "I don't belive in God" and some retarded doxist quips "That's okay, God belives in YOU!" I realize that I am up against ad hoc fundamentalism. The patronizing aspect of the statement is that I am wrong, the speaker obviously knows better; the speaker speaks on behalf of the god they belive in.

While the intentions are nice, the statement "I am praying for you" really gets my goat. It assumes I belive in prayer like they do and I am supposed to thank them for doing me some great favor as they throw rocks at the moon and grunt on my behalf.

"Buddy" and other patronizing terms of endearment...there are a few friends who are permitted to call me by these terms..but I find it disturbing in formal business relationships or with people I just met. Ususally people who use this term in a business relationship are attempting to take a dominant position for their advantage. Watch for this from car dealers, mechanics, money lenders, and workplace equals. I am a 35 year old man, not an 11 year old kid. Don't presume to treat me like a little brother or son so that I will defer authority to you and sign over more money than I am supposed to. You will call me by my name. Women do this too, but they use "Hon" and "Dear". Nobody you are not familiar with should use these terms..if they do, they are attempting to establish parameters which are advantageous to themselves. A trick I sometimes use is to call them by the same term right back..it is funny to watch how unsettled they get.

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Cheap Signaling

pinworm — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:33:53 GMT

"Cheap Signaling" is sociologist-speak for expressing non-conformity or protest in a safe, benign way.

A perfect example are older teens/younger 20's kids who become "goths" or who attempt to shock the status quo with outward appearance alterations like facial pierceings or blue hair. While it may indeed be shocking to the status quo, it is not particularly dangerous and doesn't require a large amount of personal sacrifice on the part of the signaler..hence the "cheap" part. Compared to strapping a bomb on yourself and taking out the CEO of Monsanto or standing down a line of tanks in Tiannamen Square, it is outright lazy.

It expresses dissastisfaction with the ruling order but is not itself a sign of bona-fide revolutionary behavior..as a matter of fact, in and of itself within subgroups of culture it is actually quite fashionable and usually ends up being marketed by corporations peopled by those it was intended to shock in the first place...companies like No Fear, Hot Topic etc.

There are more verisions of this. A favorite of mine is the "Barnes and Noble Intelligentsia"..those who hang around chain bookstores who have tried very hard to market the coolness/artiness of independent bookstores with piped in jazz, coffee bars, and Chet Baker posters...in a landscape of big box everything there are places in this country..out west mostly, where there are almost no such independents left. It is a kind of McIntellectualism, packaged and prepared in power point presentations in distant sky scrapers by people in suits. I would hardly say that reading in coffeeshops counts as counter cultural, but at one time it really was. Attempting to impart some coolness to yourself by spending an afternoon in such a place with Giarda Cookbooks and Oprah Winfrey mags is as political as putting on a bumper sticker of an American Flag. You won't be chatting with dissidents at Starbucks or the bookstore it happens to be in.

And then there is religion. Umberto Eco had a whole thing about how time can make an idiotic idea seem exotic. Christianity dominates the western world, a version of the universe that demands the worship of a corpse on a stick. To counter the damage without eliminating the need for narrative excuse making for the unknown, many have turned to "exotic" religions as a personal statement. Paganism, Zorastrianism, Wiccans,Hinduism, Buddhism, or my personal favorite, "The Mish Mash" which takes what it likes from all the others and calls it "Spirituality".
This is a form of cheap signaling.

From an epistemological point of view, they are all equally absurd ideas..there is no more plausability to the idea of the Hindu gods than there is to the idea of the Judeo Christian God..or anything else you can posit without evidence like green unicorns driving gold BMWs wearing pink ASU sweatshirts. One doesn't become dangerous or counter cultural by trading one abusdity for another, but one can SEEM like someone truly different and FEEL like someone truly different, provided they don't really question it all too deeply. I remember a hopless moment during the 90's just after Marshall Applewhite convinced a bunch of people to kill themselves because a UFO was behind the Hale-Bopp comet and it was coming to take them away. A christian aquaintance of mine commented "Wow! Can you belive those nut-jobs?", and then proceeded to give me a laundry list of reasons why those who fail to worship the corpse on the stick are doomed to an eternity of torture in a place called Hell.

I go to a number of protests..or I did until this year. There is just too much "cheap signaling" at protests these days...too many jugglers, too much ironic, overly cryptic messages in the form of group theatre (lets pose as flowers killed by global warming on the count of 3!) and not enough molotov cocktails...not enough Hummer dealerships on fire..not enough FEAR in the hearts of those who hold the reigns of power. They must be looking down, smirking at the group of "Circus Clowns Against Bush" juggling on the mall.

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the American man are socialy handicapped ?

costin — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 02:04:06 GMT

somebody say

" to be man
to be straight
to be white

you have not any rights"

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1 googol years from now

pinworm — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 04:43:09 GMT

Empty your mind. We’re about to take a BIG leap into the future. Not just a lousy few billions of years, but 10 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 years!

One ‘googol’ years, is the official word for that number. It’s the current age of the Universe, one billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion times over. Squeeze the entire history of our Universe into the thickness of a dollar bill, and one googol years would give you a pile of money that reaches one hundred quadrillion quadrillion quadrillion quadrillion light years high. It wouldn’t even fit in our Universe.
One googol years. That’s truly staggering. Beyond anything a human can comprehend.

First, let’s fast-forward to the not-so-awfully-far future. For the coming billions of years, scientists predict quite a ride. The Sun will explode, the Milky Way will slam into another galaxy. The Cosmos might collapse, or get torn apart -- scientists can’t seem to decide yet which is more likely. And even if the Universe doesn’t do that, we’re destined to face a weird and horrible crisis, which involves us spending our lifetime as sleeping robots.

The problem is that the Universe gets bigger and cooler. Ever since the Big Bang, it expands, much like an expanding ball of fire after an explosion. Right now, the Universe is still young. It has these cute stars and twinkling galaxies. But in the long run, that will change. Slowly but inevitably, the Universe will empty itself.

Big Nothing: Eventually, the Universe will become a dark, sterile place

First, the galaxies will fly out of sight, beyond the horizon of what we can possibly see. Next, the stars in our own galaxy will burn out, one after the other. The only thing that will remain, is a dull graveyard of cold planets, dead suns and black holes. In about one hundred trillion years, the Milky Way will go black, astronomers expect.

And eventually, even this graveyard decays. One after the other, the dead stars and planets are eaten by black holes, or kicked out of the Milky Way by collisions. Astronomers expect that in one hundred to one thousand billion billion years, our galaxy has dissolved completely.

Time goes on. After a while (more trillions of years) something else will kick in. You’ll notice that even the very stuff nature is made of, isn’t stable. A proton, the particle you’ll find in the core of atoms, has an average lifetime of 100 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 years. Wait long enough, and it will suddenly vanish. Poof, gone. The same goes for light particles, the so-called ‘photons’. They’re expected to last a few zero’s longer, but in the end, they too will kick the bucket, one after the other. Isn’t that just bizarre? The light will go out, literally.

The last thing that survives, are the black holes. But in the end, they too will vanish. They will evaporate in a puff of radiation.

So there we are, at our unimaginable one googol years. Finally, the Universe is totally and utterly empty. You won’t see any light or spot any planet -- in fact, you won’t even find the tiniest speck of dust. The Universe has sterilized itself. All there is left, is emptiness, and darkness. Total oblivion. And worst of all: there’s nothing we can do to stop it. We can build fancy machines or futuristic devices all we like -- but in the end, they’ll all get kicked out of existence, when the matter they are made of simply vanishes.

So there you have it: infinity. Booooring, we must add.

But don’t sob. There’s an upside.

As the quadrillions of years pass by, something very odd should happen. In eternity, even the rarest events get a chance to occur. Weird, bizarre phenomena that only happen once in a zillion years or so, become quite normal.

For example: the nothingness should yield a few surprises. Already, physicists know that in a vacuum, there are sometimes tiny little energy ‘blobs’. Little, random fluctuations of the so-called ‘quantum vacuum’. Out of nowhere, tiny particles pop in and out of existence. But theory predicts that on very, VERY rare occasions, the fluctuations should be a bit larger. Out of nowhere, an entire atom might appear! Or hey, the vacuum may even spit out a few of them!

Think of it like the static on TV. Wait long enough, and out of the random fuzz, a recognizable image might materialize. Wait REALLY long, and one day a complete episode of The Bold And The Beautiful should accidentally show up!

In the vastness of eternity, even things that are almost impossible become real. Like the sudden appearance of, say, a light green buste of Napoleon Bonaparte.

In the Universe, this should give some really surprising results. With eternity at hand, the vacuum should begin to yield all kinds of objects. Incoherent lumps of random garbage, most of the time. But on very, very rare occasions, you’ll see other objects popping into existence. The Eiffel tower. A purple camel. A golden parking garage filled with chocolate Cadillacs. Napoleon Bonaparte sitting next to Mike Tyson on top of a stack of comic books. As the googols of years pass by, it’s all there.

In the VERY, VERY, VERY long run, the vacuum will even belch up complete planets, and beautiful stars, burning and all. Theoretically the vacuum should even churn out a complete solar system one day, identical to ours, with a planet Earth inhabited by people. "In an infinite amount of time, one day, I will reappear", as physicist Katherine Freese of Michigan University once put it. "An crazy thought, but true."

One day the black nothingness should even produce a new Big Bang. Admittedly, we’ll have wait really long for it to happen. Researchers of the University of Chicago once tried to calculate it. And according to their best estimates, it should happen somewhere over the next 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 years. That’s a one with 1056 zero’s. You can count them, if you like.

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How would you feel ........

Paynie — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:05:19 GMT

...... if you broke up with a lover after 6 months and she asked you for some drugs to indulge with her new boyfriend?

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my dream is true

costin — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:26:26 GMT

Pinworm is a mode

I'm back bitches !

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I Just Can't Buy American

pinworm — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:10:19 GMT

I know a few people who are consumer patriot types. Whenever I have a bit of car trouble, they pipe up with "You should have bought American!"

Oh really??? So instead of a small coolant leak I could have an exploding gas tank??

American cars are shit. I am sorry. They are TOTAL CRAP in every aspect of automotive design.

Let's start with the mechanics of American cars. Sure, it's great to have vehicle with cheap and available parts..because you are going to need them! American cars brakes have a tendancy to over grip and fail early and it doesn't matter what american car you drive...buick, ford, olds, cadillac, gmc...it's all the same.

American cars have impressive torque...when you are in 1st going under 25mph..when you get up to that 75mph, 5th gear range it's like trying to ejaculate through a flacid penis. American cars shake like epileptics when idling and rattle like parkinson's victims when driving around.

Then there is good old american suspension. If you have spent really good bucks, you will get a car that feels like a couch...no road feedback, sloppy and soft handling, approximate turns with understeering..if you have spent small bucks on a cheaper american piece of shit like a NEON, it feels more like driving a radio flyer wagon with particle board for seats..the good news is that you will never get the car going fast enough for a serious accident.

Then there is the interior...I know this is petty, but American cars have NEVER been that great inside, even if you are dropping 70 thousand dollars on a high end caddy. Actually, Americans do seats quite well..but the consoles are usually that bubbly, oversized button plastic with a green LED from 1986 indicating the time and a PIONEER stereo.

Speaking of stereo's, never buy an American one of those either.

You know who makes great cars? The Germans. Sorry to say it, but it's true.

And the Japanese make pretty good ones too...ugly, uncomfortable, but TOTALLY RELIABLE.

I would love to give Americans jobs....but then again as the right is fond of saying: nobody OWES anyone a job. I would buy american if the product was better.

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I told you, they wanted us in Iraq.

Dustin (El Guapo) — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 01:52:33 GMT

http://www.dumpalink.com/videos/Us_tank_crushes_iraqi_civilians_car-d56b.html

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vote republican

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:32:11 GMT

(everybody move to prove the groove
everybody move to prove the groove)

Have you heard it on the news
About this fascist groove thang
Evil men with racist views
Spreading all across the land
Dont just sit there on your ass
Unlock that funky chaindance
Brothers, sisters shoot your best
We dont need this fascist groove thang
Brothers, sisters, we dont need this fascist groove thang

History will repeat itself
Crisis point were near the hour
Counterforce will do no good
Hot you ass I feel your power
Hitler proves that funky stuff
Is not for you and me girl
Europes an unhappy land
Theyve had their fascist groove thang

Brothers, sisters, we dont need this fascist groove thang

Democrats are out of power
Across that great wide ocean
Reagans president elect
Fascist God in motion
Generals tell him what to do
Stop your good time dancing
Train their guns on me and you
Fascist thang advancing

Brothers, sisters, we dont need this fascist groove thang

Sisters, brothers lend a hand
Increase our population
Grab that groove thang by the throat
And throw it in the ocean
Youre real tonight you move my soul
Lets cruise out of the dance war
Come out your house and dance your dance
Shake that fascist groove thang
(shake it!)

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hybrids

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:17:09 GMT

The Toyota Prius gets better gas mileage on the highway if you remove the heavy-ass hybrid battery and all of the other hybrid dead weight. Univ. o Michigan did an experiment and proved this.

So for people who mostly drive long stretches of open highway, the hybrid sucks!

In the city, though, it rocks.

What really sucks is soccer moms in Suburbans with those I support the troops yellow ribbon magnets. That states the obvious, but those soccer moms are still doing it!

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Toward a Kinder, Gentler Borg

feiruz_al-bnefsagia — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:10:23 GMT

The following is not my opinion, but I agree with much of what the author says....

From http://news.yahoo.com/s/bw/20071129/bs_bw/nov2007ca20071127809043
By Marshall Goldsmith

"You must assimilate -- resistance is futile!"

In Star Trek, the Borg was a society of part-biological, part-machine creatures that roamed the universe assimilating all of the cultures, people, and technology they encountered. The Borg did not destroy, the Borg assimilated. The Borg learned from each assimilated culture and grew in strength. Each new planet brought an opportunity for learning and growth. Each new person became part of the powerful Borg collective.

The West -- with our great, liberal, market society -- has become the Borg of our planet. We are rapidly assimilating cultures, people, and technology. I have traveled outside the U.S. more than 200 times in the past 30 years, and I can tell you that truly different people and cultures are disappearing at an amazing rate. They are being assimilated into our Borg. (In fact, if you are reading this column, you are probably a valuable contributing member of the Borg, as I am.)

Our Borg is much more powerful than the Borg of Star Trek, which had to force people to join it. We don't force people to assimilate. We make people want to assimilate. People don't run from us. Anyone can leave our Borg at any time, but almost no one wants to.

Our Borg is a market culture. We stimulate desire. We continually create new, better products people want to own. Anything that doesn't sell will quickly be eliminated.

Our Borg is also a business culture. English is the language of the Borg because English is the language of business. For better or worse, almost any leader of significance in any global corporation will speak English in the not-too-distant future. Most do now.

Some blame our Borg for the "Americanization" of the world. What they dont realize is that our Borg is global. Globalization seems like "Americanization" because "American culture" is largely a mixture of cultures from around the world. For example, only one of the top 20 restaurants in New York serves American food. Almost all of the top 20 are French, Japanese, Italian, or some combination. Even American staples such as hamburgers or French fries came from somewhere else. U.S. culture is a mixture of things we love from around the world. The Borg culture is not American -- the American culture is Borg.

Culture Is Power

Our Borg has a lot going for it. Liberal market capitalism may have its flaws, but it has produced a record of progress that far surpasses anything else. Borg members have lots of choices. We can get products and services from around the world. The Borg is strong because it gives us what we love. The Borg recognizes our humanity. We can strive to better ourselves. We can become leaders of the Borg hierarchy. Open opportunity is key to successful Borg capitalism.

Why do other cultures see us as a threat? Because we are. We don't want to eliminate other cultures; we just do. Our real power is not our weapons. Our real power is our Borg culture.

What is our challenge as leaders in a Borg world? We should stop denying the obvious. We are taking over the world -- not because we want to -- we just can't help it. Our Borg stuff is just too good. Given the choice, most people will eventually vote Borg. We give them what they love. They will become part of us. We will all become more alike.

A Little Cultural Diversity

I have a radical suggestion for how the Borg should deal with other cultures. We should encourage their continued existence. While we seem to care about not causing extinction in animals, we merrily go on causing extinction in cultures. If species were disappearing as fast as cultures, there would only be three or four left. In North America, there were once many distinct native cultures and languages. Today they are almost all gone.

Let's make a deal with anyone who wants to be different from the Borg. As long as you don't bother us (and you aren't blatantly evil), we will do our best to leave you alone. In fact, we may try to help you out. A little cultural diversity can at least give Borg sociologists something to study. It can give us a place to vacation that doesn't seem like everyplace else.

Visit the upscale shopping street in any Borg city around the world. The good news is you can get products from around the world. The bad news is they are all the same products. One of the reasons our species has survived so long is diversity. Our biggest threat may not be from people who are different from us, it may be from the fact so many of us are so alike.

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I'm tired

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:34:55 GMT

of you.

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FUCK Idiots who get in the way

pinworm — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 04:06:19 GMT

Have you ever noticed that some fucking retarded cunt-whore dipshit Americans are fond of standing right the path of heavy foot traffic?

There are crowded places where people need to move..here is a list of places NOT to stand and chat:

The top of the escalator.
The entrance/exit of public washrooms at the airport
The main drive aisle of a store
infront of ANY door

People are such fucking idiots. Looking at these fuckers, it seems the 9/11 attacks were totally justified.

What in gods faggot name makes people think it's a good idea to just STOP and stand around dumbfounded in such high foot traffic areas?

And it's always the ELDERLY isn't it? The ones who have lost all grip on being in public..the ones who are going to not let you pass them in the aisle because they will zig zag as if they know you are there. Who the hell thinks chatting at the top of a busy escalator is a GOOD IDEA?
Gramps, I know you are waiting for your senile old bat of a wife to come out of the toilet..why not just leave all your luggage in the entrance to the men's room while you wait? The 400 people per minute using the toilets won't mind at all!

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Pinworm

Sleepingattheconsole — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:54:25 GMT

Pinworm is a great guy.

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Where did Rik go?

in-PHI-net — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 04:37:37 GMT

Do you know?

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TAX CRITICS TRICKED, ARRESTED BY FEDS

DickGentile — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:57:43 GMT

TAX CRITICS TRICKED, ARRESTED BY FEDS

Federal agents pose as supporters of Browns; infiltrate home and arrest convicted couple

By Mark Anderson

In New Hampshire, where Colonial farmers once stood their ground against trained Redcoats as anger grew over British misrule, Ed and Elaine Brown stood their ground but were tricked and arrested by U.S. marshals who entered their property October 4, posing as supporters of the Browns’ resistance to paying federal income taxes. The Browns argue that there’s no law on the books requiring payment.

A lot has changed since “the shot heard round the world” launched the American Revolution. British taxes imposed unilaterally on the colonies were among the many reasons that independence from the crown was declared. But Americans today pay a dizzying array of heavy taxes at several levels that, in retrospect, make the taxes imposed by King George III and Parliament seem quite modest.

American and British soldiers no longer face each other but instead fight side-by-side in long, unwinnable coalition “police actions” that are draining the American treasury and spilling blood the world over—which necessitate huge expenditures and the confiscatory taxes.

But many Americans are not convinced the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that ushered in the federal income tax in 1913 was properly ratified; and no one can seem to produce a copy of a statute that requires payment of such a tax. Even former IRS agents Joe Banister and Sherry Peel Jackson—before they themselves rejected the income tax—say they tried to find such a law on the books in their official capacities, to no avail.

Furthermore, amid little, if any, publicity, income tax cases are being won in court by individuals. Louisiana lawyer Tommy Cryer, who did not file income tax returns, maintained there is no law requiring payment of the federal income tax and won in court on his criminal case recently.

Peymon Mottahedeh, creator of Freedom Law School in California, teaches about the history and fraudulence of the income tax. He respects the Browns’ courage but said they are “unnecessary martyrs.” He added, “We need more victories than we do martyrs.” He also said that the Browns were “ill prepared” to go up against the government system that perpetuates the income tax. But people such as Cryer, who prepare for the fight, show that the tax monster can be slain.

“We did not have debtors’ jail in America until the income tax came into the picture,” Mottahedeh added, pointing out that the old concept of debtors prisons should not be allowed in a supposedly free country such as the United States.

Ed Brown had said that if someone would show him the law, he’d pay the tax. No one could show him the law. The feds prefer a show of force, as armed agents, including SWAT teams, had surrounded the Browns’ large home in varying degrees for months.

For a while, it looked like the worst might happen at the Browns’ home, but bloodshed did not occur even though local, state and federal police generally are showing increasingly less restraint—in shocking incidents ranging from unnecessarily rough arrests of teens to apprehending and detaining people at airports and along the nation’s roadways with excessive
force and often without probable cause.

The Browns were armed, as were some supporters, at times. A picnic and rally were held by supporters on their land in rural Plainfield in the summer. The patriotic rock band Pokerface performed, and notable speakers addressed the income tax issue, among other topics. But, with painfully few exceptions, we don’t live in an age of impartial inquiry when issues are logically and boldly discussed in official proceedings. Today, judges typically refuse to hear arguments on the validity of the income tax as the Browns found out when they first went to court over this matter.

Ed stopped attending because he saw the proceedings as a sham. His wife attended a little longer but soon followed suit. The Browns maintained that U.S. District Court Judge Steven McAuliffe in nearby Concord did not allow them to secure the witnesses and evidence they needed for their defense, to ensure a truly fair trial that would explore the income tax itself.

Activists in South Dakota, California and elsewhere in favor of doing away with judicial immunity—who instead want judicial accountability—cite this kind of behavior when making their case (see jail4judges.org and related websites).

AFP is not aware of any independent witnesses on the scene at the time of the arrest. So it’s not known whether any degree of violence occurred or excessive force was applied as marshals entered the house at a vulnerable time when there were no supporters present, caught the Browns off guard and arrested them and removed them from a home that the big media often called a “compound,” that infamous word quickly assigned to the house of anyone, right or wrong, who resists entry by police for whatever reason.

The Browns, after keeping the feds at bay for about 10 months, are now in federal custody and have started to serve what is reportedly a 63-month sentence. Stiff financial penalties and the back taxes that the feds allege the Browns owe are likely to accompany their time in federal prison. The federal government claims income taxes were owed mainly from Elaine’s former dental business. The physical assets of that business—Half Hollow Dental Center in nearby West Lebanon— were seized by the marshals
on June 7.

Alabama-born Marshal Stephen R. Monier, who resides in New Hampshire and once served as police chief in Goffstown near Manchester, supervised the operation and commented: “Ultimately, this open door policy that they (the Browns) seemed to have, which allowed the Browns to have some supporters bring them supplies, welcome followers and even host a picnic—this proved to be their undoing. They invited us in.We escorted them out.”

The Browns may face unspecified weapons charges, too, Monier said, adding that a small team of marshals pulled off the ruse to trick the Browns. The couple, convicted Jan. 18, 2007 in Concord and sentenced in April, had initially owed $625,000 in taxes on $1.9 million in income from 1996 to 2003, according to figures from the government, which also alleged the Browns hid their income. Those amounts have varied and still are subject to change.

While the Browns’ electricity was cut off some time ago at their 100-plus acre homestead, the couple had stockpiled food and reportedly had some
solar power capability, enabling them to survive for such an extended period of time. And while some may conclude that the Browns held out in vain, the validity of the income tax system—which comes straight from the Communist Manifesto in concept—runs totally against the grain of freedom and is being exposed for what it is: a tyrannical fraud. May their arrest be the ultimate undoing of this Marxian tax.

American Free Press reporter Mark Anderson can be reached via email at truthhound2@yahoo.com.

(Issue #43, October 22, 2007)

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Ron Paul is a legitimate candidate

Walker — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:22:00 GMT

Ron Paul raised over 5 million in the third quarter, a 114% increase from last quarter. He has 5.3 million on hand.
To put that in perspective...McCain is expected to have raised the same amount.

Over 100+ articles posted on the internet

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3686073&page=1
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN03273615
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jd1Fl2xtwI3ahLMkwUCVzU_IkelgD8S218RG0
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/03/paul-raises-more-than-5-million/

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football sucks

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 04:06:59 GMT

The shoulder pads and tight spandex pants are gay.

It is all macho gay shit, with the referee constantly blowing his whistle like some gay carnivale party.

The rules are boring and overly complicated, and the action keeps stopping. There's no rhythm. And it takes too fucking long.

Football is like a drunk, clumsy guy trying to prove what a stud he is while fucking a prostitute.

It's hardly popular anywhere outside of the US. The whole fucking rest of the world plays soccer. Not that we should ape the rest of the world, but maybe they know something in this case.

Football is gay and stupid, and the whole world knows it.

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